With all due respect, it seems to me that most of the situations highlighted are sincerely global. The remedy approaches are local, though. Those cases are just as pronounced in any Western European Civilization as in any "Third World" country.
Perhaps the major difference is organizational infrastructures to address them and participation of the keen.
For example from the article, it appears evident that there are not much being done even by the authors themselves. Otherwise, they would have made some reference / account of such involvement that would motivate or inspire others.
Is it not so?!
The are covered by the article is so wide that it calls for numerous organizations / associations to involve.
Most European countries function like that.
WHAT DO THE AUTHORS ACTUALLY MEAN BY "NATION STATE"?
I reckoned the authors would hit with better force and get better effect if they enlightened on the endeavors of involved
benevolences and the problems they encounter. Probably, in that way, Ugandan who wish to get involved gets a lead.
Best rds
noc'la gaumoy
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:35:22 +02
Subject: [Ugnet] Buganda Women lIberated ?
Hon. Janat Mukwaya
Hon. Syda Bumba
Hon. Mutagambwa Maria
Hon. Bitamazire Gerldine
Buganda Women Parliamentarians
Mukyala Esther Nsibambi
Mukyala Dr. Margaret Bukenya
C/O
Hon. Deputy Speaker Rebbeca Kadaga
Parliament Avenue
Uganda Legislature
Kampala
Uganda.
Baganda Women liberated How?!
Under which regime, so
many Buganda women became victims of merciless violence? More Buganda women have been murdered under the past twenty years than any other period in the history of this country. That is the empirical and realistic truth based on data from media reports and other sources.
On average, a woman is murdered in Buganda every month!
Suffering of Buganda women for that reason, can only be explained as being generated by the present state of affairs. Buganda women have fallen prey to among others;
a. Acid attacks, women faces deformed the number is staggering.
b. Gruesome murder of Buganda woman almost every month.
c. Womens children sacrifices that has become a norm.
d. A squalid and slummy environs in Buganda towns, Buganda women is the majority.
e. Buganda young women majority in local brew trade balembeka.
f. Buganda women majority in papyrus churches soul searching.
g. Buganda girls majority in women trafficking and trade
On
all the above, is no concern for NRM government apart for propaganda purposes, and nothing has ever been done to rectify the situation. The murder and torture therefore, for Buganda women can continue.
Were still studying, the structure of marijuana and narcotic drug use among Buganda women in Buganda townships. Which I am told is rampant among young Buganda sex workers as well as among Buganda university students, without secure financial support for higher education.
The poor souls turn to marijuana, to manage street life to pay a costly path to higher education.
Buganda womens lives, are increasingly becoming meaningless and yet more uncertain in all Buganda trading centres. They are disposed to a baseless and uncultured life style.
In Lukaaya we are told, Buganda women go for as low as 1000 shillings a night. At Sheraton, Equatorial and Speek hotels, a Buganda university student or graduates, are as cheap as US $ 10 a night. At Half
London were Hon. Miria Matembe once launched a battle to save Buganda girls, they go for a bottle of bell lager or pilsner beer.
At Makerere, Kyambogo, Kampala International or Nkumba university campuses, its worse. For a lunch of Katogo in run down slums of; Wandegeya, Banda, Kabalagala, one can earn a graceful and cultured Buganda girl.
Buganda must rise up and defend Buganda kingdom, otherwise a nation is on the verge of collapse. All is happening to our Buganda women and ladies when Professors; Nsibambi, Bukenya, Kiwanuka, Makubuya are quietly eating!
One encyclopaedia Britannica ( I cant recall the volume, publication year and page), its written by one British historian, the collapse of the roman empire started with neglect for their women, who opted to live own lives, from a very oppressive nation state.
The Roman Empire, it was not so long before then, it completely collapsed.
Polythene bags for a nappy
Travelling in
taxi from upcountry towards Kampala, I vividly witnessed how NRM liberated Buganda and Baganda women. Women are numerous as the number of districts. Tears fell from my heart for what I am about to describe shows the very terrible state of affairs this country Buganda is going through.
I was seated besides a graceful beautiful Muganda woman, who had a baby of about 12 months. The woman had wrapped a black polythene bag into a white piece of cloth. Its exactly the same piece of cloth, with its black polythene bag that woman wrapped around the childs behind. It was a nappy of sorts.
The polythene bag will hold urine and faeces tightly until the woman and the baby probably reaches their destination.
I was enraged.
Do children in this country have any rights to a decent life and well-being what about Buganda women?!
NRM claims to have liberated Buganda and Baganda women from what? And support has been massive in both parliament and outside
it. How did liberate NRM Buganda and Baganda women?
Its pure nonsense!
For quarter of a century, I have leaved among European people. I never saw such a degrading women and childrens condition. Children would never go hungry, or leave into such primitivity, forced on their mothers and families.
I lived a better life before modernisation came to this country as a child.
If a European or an African women alike, got a child and for some reason she had no support or provisions a social office and the hospital or an equivalent of the ministry of gender and social development, will make sure, the woman is fully facilitated with provisions, to such an extent that the woman and the baby will leave a relatively civilised life.
Im still so troubled with NRM ignorance.
I fully understand, among other people who dont cherish Bugandas culture, walking naked is not a disgrace or using polythene bags, to hold faeces is not too much a
problem.
A prehistoric way in which NRM is treating Buganda women, is a good reason to reject it completely. Imagine these political leaders having their children wrapped in polythene bags !
Buganda must take care of its own, the nation state has failed and Buganda is living dangerously.
Pain of a sick child
In one village, a muganda woman has a sick child. She has told me she was informed the child might have some problem with the heart. This woman has no husband or support at all. The child is about one year and half.
The baby is very sickly and emaciated.
I ask the mother, what her next step is? She explains she earned 40000 shillings from her job last month. She has been told to take the baby to Mulago for ultra- sound and blood test.
Unfortunately, she is not used to Kampala and the day she tries to take the baby to Mulago, the funds, her 40000 shilling earned last month is stolen. A good Samaritan supports her with
transport back to the village with an untreated baby!
As fate might suggest, she has to wait for another month until paid 40´000 shilling on which she has to pay a small rented room, her and the babys food provision and then medical fees.
What is going on in Buganda is genocide of innocent child. Is Buganda any different from the suffering masses in Acoli and Lango?
Buganda women it is said are liberated by NRM!
A widow and her grandchildren
She has been sweating for hours, as she forces a hand hoe into heavy mud pail it into moulds for sweet-potatoes plantation. It is a heavy job, for this elderly Muganda woman of 70 years or above. The grand children must eat or else they both starve and eventually die.
Their parents I ask in wonderment they perished in aids other in wars she retorts.
Her muddy house, is no place for mucus filled children some crawling in water logged mud.
Is this what Muteesa I desired his
subject to live when he modernised Buganda some one hundred seventy years ago No!
Buganda is in total crisis, for when I compare my study of Kampala slums and villages its exactly the same pattern I see all over again and again.
Buganda and Baganda must get set to leave a failed state.
Long live Ssabasajja the King Mwenda Mutebi, Long live Buganda and save us from the evil one.
Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero.
Bwanika
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