Fatuma's Voice

Fatuma’s Voice is a unique educational forum based in Kenya that focuses on youth empowerment. The forum stands out because of its distinct use of Art, Poetry and Music as a tool for youth to express themselves. Our Vision is to Build an Africa that can...

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#ReleaseKiama Activist Arrested Amidst Calls for IMF to Stop Loaning Kenya

#ReleaseKiama A thread ⬇️

#ReleaseKiama is trending top on #KOT Twitter as one of us, a comrade, Mutemi Wa Kiama has been arrested for being suspected to have made this poster. He’s being taken to court this morning on cybercrime offenses. The police are accusing him of making the below public notice asking the world to stop lending money to Kenya. This is not the first time Mutemi has been arrested without any charge and…

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#ReleaseKiama

#ReleaseKiama A thread ⬇️

#ReleaseKiama is trending top on #KOT Twitter as one of us, a comrade, Mutemi Wa Kiama has been arrested for being suspected to have made this poster. This is not the first time Mutemi has been arrested without any charge and we are calling for his immediate release. Read about how Mutemi was Abducted buy unknown men in the middle of the night. It was so serious that Anonymous tweeted about his…

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Apply for Women of AdSense Summit

Join Women of AdSense Summit in celebrating Women's History Month.

March is the Women’s History Month, meant to highlight the contributions of women to historical events and contemporary society. We’d love to celebrate this time of the year with you at Google’s Women of AdSense summit! UN Women ad series reveals widespread sexism Advertisements play a very significant role in perception and socialization and the formation of belief systems. In 2013, A series…

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Museveni Buys International Silence with Expensive Military Hardware

Museveni Buys International Community Silence with Purchase of Expensive Military Hardware: A thread ⬇️

Some people have wondered how come the international community is silent when President Tibuhaburwa Museveni harasses his main challenger, Kyagulanyi Sentamu when he has many times tried to kill him and has abducted and murdered in cold blood thousands of his party activists or supporters, as well as the conspicuous silence after stealing elections. According to Global Fire Power, Uganda…

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Timi Olagunju Emerges Iri Generation Democracy Global Board Member

Timi Olagunju Emerges Iri Generation Democracy Global Board Member

After several weeks of an election, with 66 candidates across 6 continents, Timi Olagunju emerges as a Global Board Member of the International Republican Institutes’ Generation Democracy, a member-based institution, which is a sub-division of the International Republican Institute (IRI), with members and Alumni in six continents of the world. The members (not including Alumni) are young leaders…

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Museveni & 34 Years of 'Bananas' - Is Uganda Still a Democratic Country?

34 Years of "Bananas" - What is Happening in Kampala, Uganda Today and Is Uganda Still a Democratic Country?

President Museveni has always pretended to be a democrat. This is among his many lies. He said he went to the bush to liberate us from dictatorship, only to turn the country into a dictatorship, the level of which Obote and Amin would envy. Museveni’s Deception: Is Uganda Still a Democratic Country after what Musician Bobi Wine, Kizza Besigye, and others have gone through? If Yes, then when did…

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Museveni propagandist, Mwenda, spotted flouting covid guidelines

Museveni propagandist, Mwenda, spotted flouting covid guidelines

Andrew Mwenda has been screaming at the top of his lungs, denouncing Bobi’s campaign that pulls crowds of enthusiastic supporters, by claiming that the NUP candidate was “on mass suicide mission.” Two days later, a video emerged where Mwenda is seen drinking in a bar and exchanging words in close contact with a young man. The two are not wearing masks. This is who Mwenda really is: a mercenary…

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Polls show Bobi Wine will defeat Museveni by 72%

Polls show Bobi Wine will defeat Museveni by 72%

A new survey conducted by a credible elections polls watchdog has showed that the National Unity Platform party of Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine stands a higher chance of unseating President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni. The survey which was conducted for the past two weeks showed that NUP flag bearer Bobi Wine who is wildly popular throughout the country, has a mass support of 72% of the total…

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Museveni Redeploys Kayihura to Revive Crime Preventers

Museveni Redeploys Kayihura to Revive Crime Preventers

When he was still President Museveni’s favorite and IGP of Uganda Police (UPF), Kale Kayihura created an elaborate network of “crime preventers” across the entire country. Created in 2013, the so-called “crime preventers” were estimated in the upwards of 11 million people by 2018 when President Museveni fired Gen Kayihura and ordered the network to disbanded allegedly because Kayihura was…

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'My Father's Words' Webinar by Onyango Otieno

‘My Father’s Words’ Webinar by Onyango Otieno

We are struggling to sustain healthy relationships, experiencing inflated levels of drug and substance abuse, sexual and gender-based violence, intimate partner violence, suicide rates well over the roof, and harmful work environments. These realities do not exist in a vacuum. They have roots, often hidden from us by the demands of daily life. The effects of childhood trauma are far-reaching and…

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Mental Health Guide for Young Artists in Response to COVID-19

Mental Health Guide for Young Artists in Response to COVID-19

COVID-19 crisis has hit hard at arts, culture, and the creative economy. A recent survey conducted by the HEVA Fund underscored the financial impact of COVID-19 on creative businesses in Kenya. In the survey, 58% of the respondents estimated their income losses to be “severe” and an additional 26% “moderate to severe”. We will be holding a webinar to share some of the artist’s challenging…

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A Letter to the 10th President of Uganda, His Excellency, Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu A.K.A Bobi Wine!

A Letter to the 10th President of Uganda, His Excellency, Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu A.K.A Bobi Wine!

Your Excellency Future President of Uganda, Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu A.K.A Bobi Wine… We, members and supporters of NUP on social media, mindful of recent security challenges, hereby issue the following note to you, our beloved leader:

Several people killed and dozens wounded in protests in Uganda, following the arrest…

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Media Coverage of Tanzania’s Presidential Elections (Framing Democracy)

Media Coverage of Tanzania’s 2020 Presidential Elections: Focus on opposition candidate Tundu Lissu & Magufuli clamping press freedom.

Media Coverage of Tanzania’s 2020 Presidential Elections: A focus on opposition candidate Tundu Lissu. With an unprecedented decline in press freedom since President John Pombe Magufuli took over in 2015, Tanzania has become a tragic case study. Shutdowns of newspapers and other media outlets and censorship are rampant. Some journalists have been purged or harassed for not toeing the line while many others simply left the profession. Commissioned by SAS Media Programme Subsahara Africa 60 Hume Road Dunkeld, 2196 Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Media Coverage of Tanzania’s 2020 Presidential Elections - Framing Democracy

Media Coverage of Tanzania’s 2020 Presidential Elections: Focus on Opposition Candidate, Tundu Lissu

Media Coverage of Tanzania’s 2020 Presidential Elections: A focus on opposition candidate Tundu Lissu. With an unprecedented decline in press freedom since President John Pombe Magufuli took over in 2015, Tanzania has become a tragic case study.Shutdowns of newspapers and other media outlets and censorship are rampant. Some journalists have been purged or harassed for not toeing the line while…

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End Sars, Police Brutality and Fear of Democracy in Nigeria

End Sars, Police Brutality and Fear of Democracy in Nigeria A thread ⬇️

Being young in Nigeria has always been a sobering experience but the aftermath of the #EndSars protests sparked by emboldened Nigerian youths who dared to hold their leaders accountable has proved retributive for the protesters. The End Sars movement started as a means to liberate Nigerian youthsfrom police brutality and the excesses of SARS officials who extort money from hard-working youths or…

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The Viral African Puddle Painting by Michael Mhlanga - Artist Background

The Viral African Puddle Painting by Michael Mhlanga that traveled around the world before he could tie his shoelaces.

Michael Mhlanga did a viral painting called “The African Puddle”, that traveled around the world before he could tie his shoelaces. Deep inside the inspiration of this masterpiece, is Mhlanga, a young and extremely imaginative artist from Mpumalanga South Africa in a Village called Mzinti. He was born in 1994 in Johannesburg but then grew up in Mpumalanga.

Being raised by a single parent after…

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