Jackee Batanda
Jackee Budesta Batanda is a Ugandan reporter who works for the Global Press Institute in Kampala. She is currently in the U.S., as the 2011-2012 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow at MIT’s Center for International Studies. Batanda has reported on such issues as the “revenge crime” of acid attacks on women, the targeted murders of albinos and most recently African migrants returning to Uganda to develop social programs. Follow her at @jackeebatanda
How Kony2012 gets it wrong
Invisible Children has successfully changed the scope of humanitarian marketing. Its film, however, is rife with half-truths....
Anti-gay bill gets standing ovation in Ugandan parliament
The first time round, the Ugandan government bowed to international pressure and killed an anti-homosexual bill President Obama described as "odious". This week it was re-tabled. What will happen this time? ...
Nigeria’s homegrown terrorists
The headlines from Nigeria are shocking. 250 dead in January alone, all at the hands of the Islamist sect Boko Haram. Just who are the Boko Haram? And are they really a threat to U.S. global interests? ...
Africa hopes its music festivals will change views
The music of Africa infuses much of the music of the modern world — rhythm and blues, reggae and Latin, to name just a few genres. Many talented African musicians have gone elsewhere to make a name for themselves, and now they are coming back to play in music festivals, and, their host countries hope, ...
Libya’s soccer team: Hope of a nation
Sports can salve wounds, at least the psychic ones suffered by nations. That’s what’s at stake for Libya’s soccer team when it plays Saturday in the opening game of the Africa Cup of Nations. Under Gadaffi, Libyan soccer was relegated to the sidelines. Libya last hosted the Nations Cup in 1982. During the civil war ...
Liberia angered at news of CIA and Charles Taylor
Liberians feel betrayed. The U.S. government has admitted that Charles Taylor, the bloody warlord who would become his country’s president and the first African leader to be tried for war crimes, escaped from a Boston maximum security prison with the help of the CIA. There had been rumors to this effect for years but it ...
The world responds to Wikipedia shutdown
SOPA's an acronym we all love to hate after Wikipedia goes dark for a day. Europe uses it as a warm-up to fight a similar EU law. And SOPA's sponsors say they want nothing to do with the bill. ...
