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Women civil servants and professionals also formed an organization, Action for Development, to assist women in war-torn areas, especially the devastated Luwero region in central Uganda. [4] The Uganda Association of Women Lawyers, which was founded in 1976, established a legal-aid clinic in early 1988 to defend women who faced the loss of ...
Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
Hilda Twongyeirwe at a Public Reading at the Femrite regional residence for African women writers. FEMRITE – Uganda Women Writers' Association, founded in 1995, [1] is an NGO based in Kampala, Uganda, whose programmes focus on developing and publishing women writers in Uganda and—more recently—in the East African region. [2]
Masagazi is considered by many to be the father of kadongo kamu. His brand of educative singing won him many fans and he was one of the few musicians who was involved with Uganda's independence in 1962. Elly Wamala was another of the founders. Elly Wamala is credited with the invention of this genre but abandoned it because it was constantly ...
“Here’s to strong women: May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.” –Unknown “To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.” –Spanish Proverb
A collection of 904 proverbs in their original Lugbara version with a translation and notes in English. Drawn from an area covering the Sudan, Congo Republic, and Northern Uganda. Index by topic and Lugbara words. Saayman, Willem A. (1997). Embracing the Baobab Tree: Volume 5: The African proverb in the 21st century. University of South Africa ...
During the early part of the twenty-first century, women in East Africa provided 85 per cent of the agricultural work, yet owned only 7 percent of the land. [6] Many women's rights organizations and individuals, disillusioned by groups that were not bringing women into the political process, started turning to UWONET – especially their campaign for land reform, which started in 1995. [7]
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