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Radical Rudeness: The Women who Deployed Nudity against Corruption in Uganda
The Ugandan state branded it a ‘common nuisance,’ but this nude protest, echoing the 1929 Nigerian Women’s War, wielded cultural defiance to expose forty years of authoritarianism under Yoweri Museveni. It was the language spoken by tired citizens. The language of the unheard. It was a radical act by three young women, slapping decades of injustice and shame onto the walls of the Ugandan parliament. It was a cursing ceremony to say, enough is enough. […]
