• Clare Byarugaba

A personal reflection on what it’s like to fight anti-homosexuality laws as one of the few openly LGBTIQ+ rights activists in Uganda.

• Gilbert Nuwagira

Anti-government protests have spread to Uganda, where ordinary people are tired of passively accepting elite misrule.

• Ismay Milford

How an experimental periodical led by an individual editor thrived in Nasserist Cairo even though it never joined the canon of revolutionary print.

• Alex White

A new HBO documentary exposes the harm caused by unqualified aid workers in Uganda, but its attempts to complicate the narrative ultimately fall flat.

• Anselm Kizza-Besigye

Western leftists are arguing among themselves about whether there will be bananas under socialism. In Africa, however, bananas do not necessarily represent the vagaries of capitalism.

• Kristof Titeca

In Kampala, Nasser Road has become an iconic site of entrepreneurial printing, most famously, its ubiquitous posters of notorious political figures like Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.

• Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire

The writings of Ugandan lawyer David Mpanga are both literary and legalistic, rooted in African conceptions of storytelling and self-determination.

• Helen Epstein

Uganda’s rulers don’t get that clobbering words is impossible. The pen will escape every hammer, and cross borders to haunt oppressors, even if the authors are no longer around.

• Jörg Wiegratz

Uganda has never qualified for the World Cup, but at a continental level it is making a comeback. So is its club football.

• Stephen Mukiibi
• Łukasz Stanek
• Oleksandr Anisimov

The Ugandan architect, Stephen Mukiibi, reflects on his studies in Soviet Ukraine and the lessons he learned on equality, environment, race, and friendship.

• Derek R. Peterson

A new book revisits the career of Uganda’s first elected prime minister, Benedicto Kiwanuka, his followers, and political ideas.

• Giuliano Martiniello
• Jörg Wiegratz
• Elisa Greco

Now that we have had time to process it: Uganda's January 2021 elections were a key step in the country's long transformation towards a fully fledged neoliberal society.

• Samar Al-Bulushi

African states are involved in the War on Terror more than we think. They're surrounded by an eco-system of the war industry.

• William Shoki

The day after International Women’s Day, the next AIAC Talk looks at the struggle for women’s liberation on the continent. Stream it live YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. Subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.

• Michaela Collord

Ideas for how to pressure Uganda's "M-Pigs" to become elected representatives who actually serve in the public interest.

• Abdullahi Boru Halakhe

The United States must make the choice to side with the majority of Ugandans who would like to see democracy take root in Uganda.

• Stella Nyanzi

Ugandan activist and politician Dr. Stella Nyanzi challenges a new generation of women to take up the struggle for political freedoms and revolution.

• Nanna Schneidermann

How did popular music become the battlefield of Uganda's future? And what are the consequences?

• Kalundi Serumanga

The Ugandan government quells public unrest with violence. What won't it do in the name of "security"?

• Sam Broadway

Cooperatives provide a convenient lens through which to examine the political present and future of Uganda, if not the greater region.