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A few weeks ago, when I wrote an article titled “Shakespeare in a takarang shed” about the English department at Kelaniya University in the 1970s, I mentioned of Lakdasa Wikkramasinha, the poet. Lakdasa did not teach in the English department – he was an instructor in the sub-department of English, which conducted English language courses […]
Nigerian Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka has come out with an alarming prediction if the increasingly deadly conflict between cattle herders and others does not cool down.
“If we’re not careful… we’re going to have a famine when farmers cannot go to their farms,” he told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme.
“This is serious… right on my doorstep we’re having food producers being thrown out of their livelihood.”
He alleged that farmers were being kidnapped and killed.
Soyinka himself said he had got into a row with some herders after some cattle had been driven into his compound.
The World Should Not Look Away From Uganda s Undemocratic Elections A man walks past a painting on the wall of the Ugandan electoral commission compound in Kampala, Uganda January 13, 2021 Baz Ratner / REUTERS January 14, 2021
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On January 14, Uganda will hold national elections, an exercise that is shaping up to be more of an opportunity for incumbent President Yoweri Museveni to demonstrate the repressive power of the state than a chance for Uganda’s population to express its political will. Museveni, in power since 1986, has taken no chances. Several of his challengers, including the most prominent opposition leader, Bobi Wine, have been threatene
South Africa-based Nigerian Lawyer Woos Wole Soyinka, Desmond Tutu, Others To Battle Ugandan President
The Ugandan security operatives only left the inner part of his home, but stayed outdoors with helicopters flying around all the time.
by Saharareporters, New York
Jan 29, 2021
A Nigerian lawyer residing in South Africa, Austin Okeke, has established a legal action group to tackle the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, who has been victimising his political rival, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine, following the just concluded presidential election in the country.
Museveni ordered Ugandan security forces to barricade Wine’s residence following the January 14 presidential election, placing him under house arrest.