Ugandan police firing pink-dyed water at protestors
On MSN's photoblog, striking photos of Ugandan police attacking demonstrators with water-canon that fire pink-dyed streams of water. Presumably, the pink dye helped the police track down protestors...
View ArticleKony 2012: a viral mess
(Photo: The Kony 2012/Invisible Children guys posing with SPLA soldiers on the Sudan-Congo border in April 2008. Photograph by Glenna Gordon.) UPDATE: African voices respond. Mark Kersten at Justice...
View ArticleAfrican voices respond to hyper-popular Kony 2012 viral campaign
(Updated with additions, March 10, 2012. Here's a Twitter list, so you can follow all of the African writers mentioned in this post who are on Twitter.) The internets are all a-flutter with reactions...
View ArticleKony 2012's Visible Funding: Invisible Children's anti-gay, creationist,...
(Photo: The Kony 2012/Invisible Children guys posing with SPLA soldiers on the Sudan-Congo border in April 2008. Photograph by Glenna Gordon.) Over at Alternet, Bruce Wilson digs in to the sources of...
View ArticleKony 2012 screening in Uganda results in anger, rocks thrown at screen
[Video Link to Al Jazeera report] Invisible Children's "Kony 2012" video has been viewed by millions online around the world. By view counts alone, it is now the most viral video in history. It is now...
View ArticleRevealed! Kony 2012's sinister Musical Comedy roots
From the first time I watched "Kony 2012," I always sensed a link with the storyline of Matt Stone and Trey Parker's Book of Mormon musical. But sweet fancy Moses, I did not know how closely linked...
View ArticleTeju Cole on "The White Savior Industrial Complex"
In The Atlantic today, a must-read piece by Teju Cole on some of the cultural issues raised by Kony 2012, and reactions to it in the media-blog-Twitter-opinion-sphere. I disagree with the approach...
View ArticleHidden links between #Kony2012, "The Family," and Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill
Bruce Wilson has been looking deeper into ties between Invisible Children, the group behind "Kony 2012," and a secretive fundamentalist Christian organization known variously as The Family and The...
View ArticleHackers for Charity
One more for the Charity Guide: Hackers for Charity: We’re about proving that hackers have amazing skills that can transform charitable organizations. We’re about stepping into the gap to feed and...
View ArticleCrowdfunded mosquito-confusing patch to be sent to Uganda
The Kite Patch is the subject of a very successful Indiegogo fundraiser, and holds the promise of a lasting peace between mosquitoes and humans. It bears a compound designed by UC Riverside...
View ArticleGiving no-strings-attached money to the world's poorest produces remarkably...
The Economist details outcomes from Give Directly, an organization that analyzes satellite photos to identify the poorest places in the world and then hands over no-strings-attached cash grants to the...
View ArticleUgandan president on the science of why gay sex must be criminalized: 'you...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is trying to please a conservative local faction opposed to homosexuality, but risks alienating Western aid donors. Photo: Reuters, February 22, 2014. "The mouth is...
View ArticleIn Uganda, a white German aid worker becomes an unlikely local pop star
[caption id="attachment_421380" align="alignnone" width="850"] Photo: Spiegel[/caption] https://youtu.be/k8_C6Hd3Y-A Student Deena Herr, 22, has recently become a very unlikely superstar in the African...
View ArticleUganda's corrupt president just stole another election, but he couldn't steal...
General YK Museveni has been president of Uganda for 30 years, presiding over a grinding and brutal civil war as well as a series of far-reaching laws that limit the human rights of Ugandans. (more…)
View ArticleChildren in Uganda watch a hobbyist's drone fly for the first time, and...
The way these schoolchildren in rural Uganda react to a hobbyist's drone flight demo is so delightful. Honestly, my reaction when I first saw a friend navigate his UAV into the air was about the same....
View ArticleA Chinese vitamin MLM cult is replacing healthcare for poor Ugandans
Uganda is so poor that few can afford medical care, giving it one of the lowest life-expectancies on the planet -- this toxic combination made the country ripe for infiltration by Tiens, a Chinese...
View ArticleUgandan ethics chief boasts of his new magic South Korean pornography filter...
It's been a year since the Ugandan government placed an order with a South Korean company for a "censor gadget or machine" that would "detect homos and porn actors, especially those misusing...
View ArticleMassive brawl in Parliament of Uganda includes impressive chair-catching
After Speaker Rebecca Kadaga ordered opposition party members evicted during a debate on lifting a presidential age limit, things got a little heated. (more…)
View ArticleUganda enacts unenforceable, ridiculous anti-"gossip" internet tax
At the urging of Uganda's corrupt dictator Yoweri Museveni, the Ugandan parliament has enacted legislation imposing a daily tax on anyone using social media platforms; Museveni said the measure would...
View ArticleUganda's unenforceable social media tax is augmented by a biometric...
Uganda's social media tax may be an unenforceable mess, but that doesn't make it harmless (it opens the door to selective enforcement and invites programs of censorship and mass surveillance in the...
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