Let’s remind ourselves. One of the big news stories of 2012 was “Kony 2012”, the short documentary video by the American children rights group Invisible Children. “Kony 2012”, which chronicled the atrocities of indicted Uganda war criminal and Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader Joseph Kony, became the most viral video in history. It notched more […]
January 11, 2013
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The problem about writing on 20 years of The Monitor - easily the most successful private and independent Ugandan newspaper ever - is not what to say, but what to leave out. I have decided not to say much about ours (the founders who have all now moved on), and particularly my individual role, in the […]
August 31, 2012
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So, as we reported in “How Guns And Bombs Dramatically Redrew The Economic And Political Map Of East Africa”, (http://nakedchiefs.com/2012/06/12/how-guns-and-bombs-dramatically-redrew-the-economic-and-political-map-of-east-africa-and-the-horn/), after 1998, nothing would be the same in East Africa, the Great Lakes Region, or the Horn of Africa. The decision by Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila, seen as a lackey, to expel […]
June 18, 2012
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‘Perhaps Kony 2012’s appeal comes from its “superficiality”, because that way it is able to serve up emotion. Maybe young people connect more to the emotion of stories, not their complexity. And, contrary to what we grown ups think, the kids sometimes need something more than Angry Birds and Grand Theft Auto—they would like to […]
March 17, 2012
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“Joseph Kony, a former altar boy subscribing to the same mchuzi mix of traditional-ne-fundamentalist Catholicism as Lakwena, and who also dabbled in the occult, had been lurking in the shadows in the last days of the Holy Spirit movement, recruiting former soldiers to his cause” This is the third part of the well-known and little-known […]
March 15, 2012
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“The LRA had punctured a hole in her upper and lower lips, then run a padlock through it—and walked away with the key. When they found the woman, she was emaciated, and had a rotting wound stuck around the padlock” THIS IS THE STORY OF KONY, OR RATHER KONY 2012, that sensational […]
March 13, 2012
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