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Economic liberalism, the mini-skirt and dictatorship in Uganda Liberalised, privatised, market economy expects individuals to make rational choices about what they purchase, consume, need, want, desire, and can afford. For markets to function optimally there must be a range of goods and services to choose from. But goods and services will enter the market only when there is demand. Because no businessperson worth their vocation will stock what no one needs. In the New vision of 10 June, 2009; “Gulu chief bans mini skirts”, Odek Sub-County Chairperson, Matthew Olobo, forbade women from wearing mini skirts, short dresses and trousers. That wearing these clothes is bad manners, immoral, and erodes Acholi culture and social norms. Olobo is angry that miniskirts and short dresses expose women’s body parts. But a casual survey of Acholi sartorial history reveal s that, between mini skirts , trousers, and short dresses today, and Ceno, Cip, Bune , coo-lony or lacomi that their predecess...

Imperial Britain’s Bastards Imperial Britain’s Bastards Following Treasure Trail Of Robbers Plundering Africa Ransacking Asia And the Caribbean By Air, Sea, Road and Rail They Come Peering Through Hatches Of Britain’s Racial Fortress Impenetrable it stands Imperial Britain’s Bastards From Africa and Indo-China Disinherited scions of Imperial Rape Brazenly clawing their way in From Cairo to Cape From Timbuktu to Goa Poor Illegitimate kin Of Bounty-Laden Britannia Imperial Britain’s Bastards Powerless To Snatch Crumbs From Sticky fingered Rulers House-Boy Afro-Asian Despots Waiting Globalisation Tables Superintending Sweat Shops Bell Boys Contorting for Tip From USAID and DFID Twenty-First Century House Niggers Forbidding Trade Union Rage Outlawing Minimum Wage Humouring at capitalist Raves Robbing Communal Land Polluting Rivers, Streams and Lakes Clearing Forests, Draining Wetlands Erecting Play Grounds For the Master Race Imperial Britain’s Bastards Dispossessed Regal Heirs By Sea, ...

Democracy: No Half Measures By A. Milton Obote "The credibility of the Commonwealth is on the Line with the policy to punish perceived violation of good governance in Zimbabwe while, at the same time ignoring the total and glaring banishment of good governance in Uganda," writes Milton Obote, the former Ugandan president (who died in exile in Zambia, on 10 October 2005)in a personal letter dated 22 March to the British prime minister, Tony Blair. It is a letter deserving to be framed and put up the wall of every African home. Below is the full text. "Dear Prime Minister Democracy -- no half measures This letter deals with situations in Zimbabwe and Uganda but I take the opportunity to send to you much thanks for the great and esteemed interest you have in Africa and for your support of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD). Colonialism and one-party rule in Africa during the Cold War are factors which are still making it difficult for some African states...

Israel, Hamas, War Crimes, Crimes against humanity, Genocide, Gaza, Israeli Occupation, Palestine, Israeli attacks on Gaza, Gordon Brown, Condoleeza Rice, Gaza attacks The overwhelming, gratuitous, disproportionate, and callous destruction of lives-innocent children, women, and other Palestinian civilians and citizens; including the bombing of the Islamic University, is indefensible, immoral and criminal acts of state terrorism by Israel. The United states and Britain, including the UN Security Council, cannot simply blame Hamas , while the perpetrator of violence, and the party using weapons of mass destruction to kill people in Gaza is the criminal and apartheid state of Israel. Why Gordon Brown simply saying he is appalled? Come on, Prime Minister Brown! How could you merely be appalled, when over Ziimbabwe, you could invoke the International Criminal Court (ICC) and even urge the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe? What about Secretary of ...

Northern Uganda Messenger Post: Zimbabwe: A Mirror image of South Africa and Namibia Future?#links#links#links

Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Musouia Lekota, South Africa, ANC, PAC, SACP, Namibia, Robert Mugabe; Morgan Tsivangirai; Zimbabwe; Robert Mugabe Africa, the African Union, Pan Africa, national liberation and anti-colonialist, anti-racists, anti-domination, and democratic forces in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACP) countries cannot afford to allow Zimbabwe to fail. Should Zimbabwe be brought to its knees and possible forced-collapse from encirclement by racist and imperialist global domination forces, through illegal Western-imposed sanctions, embargo, and co-optation of some quisling African regimes and their intellectually impoverished leaders as imperialist continental policemen, they will have betrayed and rolled back, not only the causes for Zimbabwean liberation and its indepencence, but also cleared a path for the liberated peoples of Namibia and South Africa (Azania) to fail in their endeavours for social justice through national liberation, economic and ...

Northern Uganda Messenger Post: How Third Party Intervention and Mediation failed in Northern Uganda#links#links