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Features, Lit Scene June 22, 2020

Makarere University to Pay Dr. Stella Nyanzi Over $ 30,000 in Damages and Reinstate Her Faculty Position

Dr Stella Nyanzi, the Ugandan feminist, academic, and queer rights advocate recently won her appeal against Makerere University for unjustly firing her two years ago. Nyanzi’s troubles with the university administration began as far back as 2016. Nyazi was at the time a fellow at the Institute of Social Research. She staged a nude protest […]

The Kenyan Literary Hustle | Carey Baraka

1. Writing this, now, at this temporal moment, means that I am not finalizing my application for a fellowship I’m applying to whose deadline is today. This is one of the things: that I’m applying for a fellowship, at the urging of YAO, and BK, who, some time last year told me to look outwards, […]

#PushforStellaNyanzi | Ruling for Dr. Stella Nyanzi’s Appeal Against Makerere University Sack Fixed for October 16

In March 2017, following her criticism of Uganda’s education and sports minister, who happens to be the First Lady Janet Museveni, Makerere University’s appointment board indefinitely suspended Dr. Stella Nyanzi. Back in 2016, after instructions from the Director of the university’s Institute of Social Research, where Nyanzi is a fellow, mandating her to teach in a […]