Ugandan Elections

By Yousef Abu-Ghazaleh The year is 1986, Uganda has seen been at civil war for 6 years. By the time the dust has settled, 500,000 people are dead, and at the helm of the country is a new leader, risen from the National Resistance Army: Yoweri Museveni. 35 years later, on the 14th of January…

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There is no such thing as marital rape

Part three of three

There is no such thing as marital rape

Part two of three

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‘I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up.’