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The Anti-Homosexuality Act was signed into law today in Uganda

It is one of the most extreme pieces of anti-LGBT legislation in the world.

Provisions of the law include the Death Penalty

What You Can Do !

Donate to Rainbow Railroad [it’s currently supporting partner organizations and activists directly]

For Canada and The US (registered as a Canadian charity and a 501(c)(3) in the US)

Donating in Currency that is NOT CAD or USD

Use your voice, protest, organize demonstrations to stand against this legislation in your area

See if your area or country has LGBT Ugandan or African collations engaged in dismantling and responding to the immediate consequences of the act

If you live in the States or Canada, hold your governments accountable. Tweet, Call, Write asking for the development of a crisis response inclusive of immediate pathways to safety for members of the LGBT community and human rights defenders impacted by this legislation!

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Explore Canadian Ugandan Flag Butterfly Art for Home and Office Decor

The "Canadian Ugandan Flag Butterfly" beautifully symbolizes the unity between Canada and Uganda through the enchanting imagery of butterflies. Featuring the colors and designs of both nations' flags, this unique motif represents not only a celebration of cultural

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diversity but also the connection between two distinct heritages. Butterflies, known for their transformative nature, embody hope, freedom, and change, making them a fitting emblem for cross-cultural relationships.

This design can be found in various forms, including art prints, home décor, and apparel, making it a versatile choice for gifts or personal expression. Perfect for celebrations, events, or simply as a way to honor the ties between Canada and Uganda, items featuring the Canadian Ugandan flag butterfly convey a message of love, acceptance, and collaboration.

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Visualizing Women’s Entrepreneurship Trends in Uganda: Empowering Innovators and Leaders

Uganda, a land of vibrant culture and rich natural beauty, is also witnessing a remarkable rise in women entrepreneurs who are reshaping its economic landscape. From bustling urban centers to rural communities, women-led businesses are not just thriving but setting new benchmarks for innovation and inclusivity. Let’s explore the evolving trends and impactful stories that define women’s…

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Stylish Kids Clothing in South Africa

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History-making move as incredible pics show first ever Irish dancing feis in Africa after top pro’s Uganda link-up | In Trend Today

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When OP doesn't have all the facts

... And shit for brains. Like I feel like a turd is more intelligent than a leftist.

War crimes committed by bibi and the idf 100% do need to be talked about and can have posts on their own, but to have a genuine conversation, the war crimes that hamas has committed against their own people and their lack of investment into defense also needs to be part of the wider conversion.

You cannot ignore the suffering that Palestinians face from Hamas. It contributes to everything. If hamas didn't turn civilian areas into military zones by setting up bases and operations in civilian areas and safe zones, the IDF wouldn't need to attack those areas. Any deaths that result due to hamas doing that, within reasonable war tactics and operations from the IDF count as being the fault of Hamas.

Hamas also steals aid and resells it. Aid that is meant to be free, gets stolen and resold to Palestinians. Whilst I'm unsure if there has been enough food donated to ensure everyone has a full belly constantly, there sure as hell has been enough to at least prevent a famine. Yet only a portion of that aid actually gets distributed for free to Palestinian civilians. Which again, is a war crime from Hamas.

Also, there would not have been as many civilian deaths if Hamas had put money at any point towards defense for civilians. I understand an iron dome level of defense would not be realistic, but at the very least bomb shelters would have prevented so many deaths.

Hamas is the current government of Gaza. It is their responsibility to keep their citizens safe. Yes Israel is attacking Gaza, however responsibility does lie on Hamas to at least do something to keep civilians safe.

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There are other reasons why environmentalism might have looked like a bourgeois playground to Said. The Israeli state has long coated its nation-building project in a green veneer – it was a key part of the Zionist ‘back to the land’ pioneer ethos. And in this context trees, specifically, have been among the most potent weapons of land grabbing and occupation. It’s not only the countless olive and pistachio trees that have been uprooted to make way for settlements and Israeli-only roads. It’s also the sprawling pine and eucalyptus forests that have been planted over those orchards, as well as over Palestinian villages, most notoriously by the Jewish National Fund, which, under its slogan ‘Turning the Desert Green’, boasts of having planted 250 million trees in Israel since 1901, many of them non-native to the region. In publicity materials, the JNF bills itself as just another green NGO, concerned with forest and water management, parks and recreation. It also happens to be the largest private landowner in the state of Israel, and despite a number of complicated legal challenges, it still refuses to lease or sell land to non-Jews.

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The JNF is an extreme and recent example of what some call ‘green colonialism’. But the phenomenon is hardly new, nor is it unique to Israel. There is a long and painful history in the Americas of beautiful pieces of wilderness being turned into conservation parks – and then that designation being used to prevent Indigenous people from accessing their ancestral territories to hunt and fish, or simply to live. It has happened again and again. A contemporary version of this phenomenon is the carbon offset. Indigenous people from Brazil to Uganda are finding that some of the most aggressive land grabbing is being done by conservation organisations. A forest is suddenly rebranded a carbon offset and is put off-limits to its traditional inhabitants. As a result, the carbon offset market has created a whole new class of ‘green’ human rights abuses, with farmers and Indigenous people being physically attacked by park rangers or private security when they try to access these lands. Said’s comment about tree-huggers should be seen in this context.

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But this only scratches the surface of what we can learn from reading Said in a warming world. He was, of course, a giant in the study of ‘othering’ – what is described in Orientalism as ‘disregarding, essentialising, denuding the humanity of another culture, people or geographical region’. And once the other has been firmly established, the ground is softened for any transgression: violent expulsion, land theft, occupation, invasion. Because the whole point of othering is that the other doesn’t have the same rights, the same humanity, as those making the distinction. What does this have to do with climate change? Perhaps everything.

We have dangerously warmed our world already, and our governments still refuse to take the actions necessary to halt the trend. There was a time when many had the right to claim ignorance. But for the past three decades, since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created and climate negotiations began, this refusal to lower emissions has been accompanied with full awareness of the dangers. And this kind of recklessness would have been functionally impossible without institutional racism, even if only latent. It would have been impossible without Orientalism, without all the potent tools on offer that allow the powerful to discount the lives of the less powerful. These tools – of ranking the relative value of humans – are what allow the writing off of entire nations and ancient cultures. And they are what allowed for the digging up of all that carbon to begin with.

2 June 2016

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Typical African on Twitter

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THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF BRAIDING The origin of braids can be traced back 5000 years in African culture to 3500 BC—they were very popular among women. Braiding started in Africa with the Himba people of Namibia. The country’s Mbalantu ethnicity uses eembuvi braids as an initiation into womanhood – our first examples of single braids or “box braids". In Angola, among certain tribes, hair grooming was an activity trusted only by other family members — something that women were taught at a young age and encouraged to participate in throughout their lives to promote womanhood. The origins of the ever-popular Bantu Knots have been traced to the Bantu people who exist across central and Southern Africa. “South Africa’s “Zulu Knots” are said to be the original manifestation of the style, and South Africa is also credited for the invention of “Box braids”, with evidence of the style being traced back to 3500 BCE. Braiding’s roots in East Africa have been traced back to 3500 BC, with cornrows (called Kolese braids in Yoruba) maintaining the top spot in popularity for just as long. Historically, Somali women have been recorded donning long, small braids when approaching puberty. Ethiopia has maintained an admirably close relationship with its traditional forms of braiding. In the Southwestern Omo Valley, the Hamar people have perfected their hairstyles as a means to dictate male worth and female marital status. The importance of braids in communicating identity is a rich part of Uganda’s history, too. In Kenya, the Maasi and Kikuyu tribes have donned their famed matted braids, intricate beading, and gold detailings ever since. West Africa boasts an abundance of hair braiding styles, many of which have influenced global African culture and trends for decades. The Fula people, whose 30 million strong population exists across West Africa, gifted the world with Fulani braids. In Ghana, the iconic Banana or Ghana braids have gained favor for their easy application, upkeep, and excellence in providing protection to natural Black hair. The first examples of this way of braiding are traced back to hieroglyphics and sculptures found around 500 BC. Similarly, Nigeria’s rich history of braiding can be traced back to a clay sculpture dated to 500 BCE depicting a cornrowed member of the Nok tribe. Mali's Dogon people has various spiritual idols depicting cornrowed spiritual leaders, and the retained tradition of The Dama dance have allowed us the privilege of understanding the bewildering society that contributed to our understanding of our universe. In Sierra Leone, Mende people's hair is closely tied to femininity and is juxtaposed with the way forests grow out of the Earth – the vegetation covering Mother Earth grows skyward the way Afro-textured hair grows out of the head. Senegal’s Senegalese Twists or “Rao” as they’re known locally came in vogue as an alternative means of creating individual, long braids – if locs or “box braids” aren’t your style. Gambian warriors were known to march off to war with tightly coiled braids, too. The Mangbetu people of the Democratic Republic of Congo, known for their practice of wrapping their skulls into a cone shape from infancy, locally referred to as “Lipombo, ” the elongated heads were then adorned with braids plaited into a crowned, basket shape called edamburu. Cameroon’s bountiful Fulani community has kept many of their hair traditions well and alive, while the region’s Bantu population participated in the popularity of the now-famed ‘Bantu knots’. In Chad, women of the Basara ethnicity are known for their thick, long, luscious hair – often plaited into waist-long individual braids. In Kemet around 1600 BCE, hair braiding amongst women of royalty, nobility, and concubines was adorned with gold, beads, and perfumed grease, while common folk kept to simpler styles necessary to get work done. #Africa

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You people don’t know what Zionism is.

Zionism is a very broad umbrella term for Jewish nationalism, including (originally) people who wanted a Jewish country in Uganda, born both out of the nationalism trend all over Europe as well as the very real need to find safety from persecution. Mainstream Zionism (Socialist & Revisionist) was far from the genocidal bogeyman you have in your minds and was more along the lines of Scottish, Catalan, or Canadian nationalism in terms of the progressive (certainly for its time) values it wanted to base this country’s values on—yes, including acceptance of ethnic minorities.

Read Israel’s declaration of independence. Read anything by Jabotinsky. For fuck’s sake read anything instead of regurgitating bullshit dreamed up by smug arseholes on TikTok.

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THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF BRAIDING

The origin of braids can be traced back 5000 years in African culture to 3500 BC—they were very popular among women. Braiding started in Africa with the Himba people of Namibia. The country’s Mbalantu tribe uses eembuvi braids as an initiation into womanhood – our first examples of single braids or “box braids". In Angola, among certain tribes, hair grooming was an activity trusted only by other family members — something that women were taught at a young age and encouraged to participate in throughout their lives to promote womanhood. The origins of the ever-popular Bantu Knots have been traced to the Bantu people who exist across central and Southern Africa. “South Africa’s “Zulu Knots” are said to be the original manifestation of the style, and South Africa is also credited for the invention of “Box braids”, with evidence of the style being traced back to 3500 BCE. Braiding’s roots in East Africa have been traced back to 3500 BC, with cornrows (called Kolese braids in Yoruba) maintaining the top spot in popularity for just as long. Historically, Somali women have been recorded donning long, small braids when approaching puberty.

Ethiopia has maintained an admirably close relationship with its traditional forms of braiding. In the Southwestern Omo Valley, the Hamar tribe have perfected their hairstyles as a means to dictate male worth and female marital status. The importance of braids in communicating identity is a rich part of Uganda’s history, too. In Kenya, the Maasi and Kikuyu tribes have donned their famed matted braids, intricate beading, and gold detailings ever since. West Africa boasts an abundance of hair braiding styles, many of which have influenced global African culture and trends for decades. The Fula people, whose 30 million strong population exists across West Africa, gifted the world with Fulani braids. In Ghana, the iconic Banana or Ghana braids have gained favor for their easy application, upkeep, and excellence in providing protection to natural Black hair. The first examples of this way of braiding are traced back to hieroglyphics and sculptures found around 500 BC. Similarly, Nigeria’s rich history of braiding can be traced back to a clay sculpture dated to 500 BCE depicting a cornrowed member of the Nok tribe. Mali's Dogon tribe has various spiritual idols depicting cornrowed spiritual leaders, and the retained tradition of The Dama dance have allowed us the privilege of understanding the bewildering society that contributed to our understanding of our universe. In Sierra Leone, Mende people's hair is closely tied to femininity and is juxtaposed with the way forests grow out of the Earth – the vegetation covering Mother Earth grows skyward the way Afro-textured hair grows out of the head.

Senegal’s Senegalese Twists or “Rao” as they’re known locally came in vogue as an alternative means of creating individual, long braids – if locs or “box braids” aren’t your style. Gambian warriors were known to march off to war with tightly coiled braids, too. The Mangbetu people of the Democratic Republic of Congo, known for their practice of wrapping their skulls into a cone shape from infancy, locally referred to as “Lipombo, ” the elongated heads were then adorned with braids plaited into a crowned, basket shape called edamburu. Cameroon’s bountiful Fulani community has kept many of their hair traditions well and alive, while the region’s Bantu population participated in the popularity of the now-famed ‘Bantu knots’.

In Chad, women of the Basara Arab tribe are known for their thick, long, luscious hair – often plaited into waist-long individual braids. In Kemet around 1600 BCE, hair braiding amongst women of royalty, nobility, and concubines was adorned with gold, beads, and perfumed grease, while common folk kept to simpler styles necessary to get work done. Back in the day, braiding hair was considered a special ceremonial practice amongst Sudanese women, even holding the braiding “events” on specific days when female neighbors and friends were invited to partake.

Reference

African Tribes and the Cultural Significance of Braiding Hair". Bright Hub Education. 9 July 2011. Archived from the original on 1 September 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2018.

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Emerging Business Trends for Women Entrepreneurs in Uganda: A Blueprint for Success

In the heart of Africa, Uganda stands as a beacon of entrepreneurial spirit, especially among its women. With a dynamic economy and a burgeoning middle class, the country presents an array of emerging business trends that women entrepreneurs can tap into. Here’s an in-depth look at the most promising sectors and how women can seize these opportunities to build thriving businesses. 1. E-Commerce…

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Ugandan Authorities Should Drop Charges Against Oil Activists

On Monday, nine student climate activists in Uganda will again appear before a Kampala court charged with “common nuisance” for their activism against a proposed oil pipeline. They were arrested and charged last year while marching to deliver a petition to the European Union’s mission in Kampala supporting a European Parliament resolution. The resolution raised significant concerns, including environmental ones, about the planned East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) and urged against its construction. In sharp contrast to the treatment of the climate activists, days earlier, students protesting against the resolution had received police protection.

The unfounded and politically motivated charges against the activists should never have been brought, ought to be dropped, and will hopefully be dismissed on Monday. They are part of an ominous and escalating trend of threats against human rights defenders in Uganda, who dare to voice concerns about the country's oil sector.