Bwana Isaac, the discussion is good, but I find this particular criticism unfair. I think in struggles against a deeply entrenched system like we have, multiple complementary methods need to be used. In the fight against Apartheid, some used music, some comedy, others street protests, some diplomatic engagement, some fundraising, others armed rebellion, others literature, some used religious crusades, and blends of the above. Each on its own may not have been the magic bullet to blow Apartheid, but part of a whole, and each made its dent on the beast in different ways. You could have read Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom, and I hope you recall what he writes about the methods of Sobukwe, Black Consciousness Movement youths, musicians, school children, Winnie, and his own.
In the struggle, we can find ways of complementing small contributions of each other using other approaches we are better equipped to employ. The arrogant grandstanding of any of us thinking that it is either ‘our super approach’ or none else is not helpful. Actually it serves to demobilise those those who would have organised differently to contribute to the bigger picture. As I’ve repeatedly said, exhibitors do not stop others from deploying alternative methods they deem fit. There is no mutual exclusivity. The other day NUP took the pothole protest to the streets, were they impeded by online exhibitions?
The online anger ensuing from the revelations of the exhibitions can be creatively mobilised and put to other purposes. It won’t be Spire, Agather, Toko, Natif or Kakwenza to do it all. They can’t. Instead of harshly loading more onto their shoulders, lead the way on another front (as you are doing on the litigation one). You won’t fail to litigate or go to the streets because Kakwenza is exposing rot using Twitter. Within the exhibitions there are opportunities that other approaches can utilise - just as exhibitions have picked material from litigations, mainstream journalism, physical protests, etc. We are gifted and positioned differently; everyone can contribute with their means and the multiple fronts make it harder for the oppressor to crush us at once. When people were brutally killed on the streets in 2020 and many developed cold feet to go back, did you prefer that we totally go quiet because tweets are nothing? Should we be blamed for devising another approach to expand the horizon of engagement as we wait on others to add too? Is the entire responsibility of resisting ours?
As long as you still live in this country, saying that you're chilling Ugandan politics is laughable.
The roads you use, the hospital you or your kin visit, the job or business you're looking for next...those and other things are affected by the politics of the day.
Matthias Walukaga has a three-part song titled Kiwugulu, in its second part; ‘Embaga ya Kiwugulu’ he says; “Yali ennyumye nyo embaga ya Kiwugulu, naye okubba musango!”