Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

Author: Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire is an African Leadership Centre Fellow attached to the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town. He is the co-founder of the Kampala based Centre for African Cultural Excellence. Follow him on twitter at @bwesigye.

Politics Uganda

By Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire
April 10, 2017
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Uganda: Stella Nyanzi charged for calling President Museveni a “pair of buttocks”

Since criticising First Lady and Education Minister Janet Museveni, the academic has faced a campaign of state repression. The Ugandan academic Stella Nyanzi was officially charged ...

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Culture Politics Uganda

By Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire
February 13, 2017
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The Strong Breed: The rise and fall of Africa’s great literary leaders

In Uganda and beyond, the political influence of writers has greatly diminished, with different kinds of artists starting to take their place. In an essay published ...

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Society Uganda

By Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire
August 1, 2016
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Decolonising Makerere: On Mamdani’s failed experiment

At the “Harvard of Africa” in Uganda, power remains in imperial structures and bodies, while excellence is still defined on Western terms. In 1922, within a few decades of ...

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