Dress Code African Woman: no miniskirt, no skimpy stuff?

[jakaswanga]

Dress code african woman: the Talibhan Buibui [burqa]

The man depicted in most cartoons wearing a colonial DC’s hat with two long horns issuing out skywards, has signed into law a bill banning Ugandan women from wearing mini skirts; Stretch skin-tights were already banned I gather. And sleeveless tops with cleavages!

This is a cultural assault worse than tearing down the Mosque at Ayodhya by Hindu extremists I tell you! Worse than tearing down a ''Sikh monument'' in Kisumu city by pious Christian gangs with an illiterate understanding of abstract sculpts!

KUDOS MUSEVENI
Speaking of morality, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has my full support. He has continued to show the west that Uganda is a sovereign nation and cannot be dictated by threat.
After signing into law the Bill against gay marriages and now the law prohibiting wearing of miniskirts by women, Mr Museveni is probably my best in terms of morality. There has been oppositions especially from the youth, but we need a decent society.
ALEX MWANGALE, Ongata Rongai
www.nation.co.ke/oped/Letters/-moral-and-religious-populism-/-/440806/2214936/-/356046/-/index.html

Ugandans look the other way: This kind of knock-out will no longer be visible on the streests of Kampala. Buibui Only from now on, in the city of Makerere hill!

www.rnw.nl/data/files/imagecache/list/images/lead/article/2011/04/muse.jpg[/img

According to the Daily Monitor the anti-pornography Bill outlaws anything that shows sexual parts of a person such as breasts, thighs, buttocks or any erotic behaviour intended to cause sexual excitement or any indecent act or behaviour tending to corrupt morals.
The Bill claims there has been an increase in pornography in the country.

The Bill is a throwback to the reign of former dictator Idi Amin who banned miniskirts by decree in Uganda during the 1970s.
Simon Lokodo, a former Catholic priest and backer of the Bill, said earlier this year: “One can wear what one wants, but please do not be provocative.”

Perhaps a substantial number of Kenyans would not mind the same attempts to arrest moral degeneration!

The Bill, first tabled in Parliament in 2011, was passed on December 19 last year, just a day before the House passed another controversial piece of legislation, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
The Anti-Pornography Bill creates the offence of pornography which is blamed for sexual crimes against women and children including rape, child molestation and incest.
It outlaws anything that shows sexual parts of a person such as breasts, thighs, buttocks or any behaviour intended to cause sexual excitement.
In the new law, pornography has been defined as any representation, through publication, exhibition, cinematography, indecent show, information technology or by whatever means, of a person engaged in real or stimulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual excitement.

[jakaswanga]

DEDICATED TO YOWERI THE ANKOLE COW MUSEVENI: LELELELELLE!

[OtishOtish]

Jakaswanga:

I watched the first 5 minutes or so of the video. What I saw from around 3:36 has convinced me that M7 is right in some things. One, the modest men need protection from certain things that would endanger their virtue. Two, young men---and Uganda has very young population---should be thinking of work, work, work; the video suggests numerous distractions. These things are best left for mature men who have passed a certain point and also know what to do with what.

[jakaswanga]

Feb 27, 2014 4:25:52 GMT 3 OtishOtish said:

Jakaswanga:

I watched the first 5 minutes or so of the video. What I saw from around 3:36 has convinced me that M7 is right in some things. One, the modest men need protection from certain things that would endanger their virtue. Two, young men---and Uganda has very young population---should be thinking of work, work, work; the video suggests numerous distractions. These things are best left for mature men who have passed a certain point and also know what to do with what.

Otishotish, I see your point about distraction. But how about an educational system that teaches coping with the numerous distractions of modern life, eg internet stuff ... you know that research.... for some reason we Kenyans are champion watchers of gay porn!

BUT HERE IS A CLUE TO WHY AFRICAN CULTURE SCARES ME TO ARGUE ABOUT!

I remember an on-going argument about the oversexualisation of the Young African female in Modern Congolese popular Music. That the dance performances had become a sleasy night-club strip-tease affair, dedicated solely to the incitement of male erotic, mating and sexually predatory instincts. In fact in the beginning of the Laurent Desiree Kabila regime, there was even a department in the offing of cultural reform, one of whose agendas was well …. The containment of the perceived sexual overdrive in these kind of popular performances which demeaned the Kongolese women and lowered the threshold for mass rape as a general social behaviour… (then popular culture hit back, re-enforced with age-old rhythms ---see footnote:}

Some thought Mobutu Sese Seko had promoted and used these kind of decadence dancing as a panacea to numb the minds of the Congolese youth, pre-occupying them with stuff of lower instincts, leaving them no time for cerebral trips to higher business and scientific planets! A Fully politically sedated, porn occupied youth! Easy to rule, easy to confuse!

Well, that was all very well in party ideology on paper, until another Kongo began to assert itself. A ruthless Kongo for whom Kinshasha was just part of a parochial factitive make-do world. A parasitic city content to scratch the surface of culture and consider itself the home of sophistication. A city of a foreign regime mouthing empty, faded revolutionary phrases!

But first, a historical overview:

For instance this rhythm Lele-le-lele-lele! Lele-le-lele-lele!

It's original is from a traditional EPIC FORM OF POETRY of some peoples in the interior of Kongo. It is a formula diction which can be tailored to tell the story of certain situations ---(in this Werrason-Wenge version above, it is the female dancing taking centre stage, which of course is also telling a popular body story .) Elsewhere, historically in the jungles, in some villages, it would be WORDS.

For example: Picture the scene of an overloaded Boat which has sunk at night, in one of the many tributaries of the Congo River. In the morning, survivors fish the bodies they can find and lay them on the side of the river. They will be buried anonymously in a mass grave, or left in a heap for wild animals to feast upon. But every boat will have Priests who shall conduct a ritual –--singing a dirge which escorts the souls of the unnamed dead ---(some of them from 1000km away and their loved ones shall never know of their fate)--- to the land of the dead ancestors.
These priests then go: (as the people refrain: Lele-le-lele-lele; lele-le-lele-lele!)

Oh Sister, Never again shall the people of your village bask in the warmth of your smile!
Oh Brother, Never again shall the stout women of your village feel the thuds of your chopping manhood! [lele-le-lele-lele, lele-le-lele-lele]
Today you have become journeymen to the land of our dead ancestors -----lele-le-lele-lele!
Take with thee then, this sound of greeting from here the land of the living! ---lele-le-lele-lele!
Tell the ancestors we that now sing are delayed yet in Planet Life
But soon we shall see each other as is guaranteed in the Book of Death ---lele-le-lele-lele!

[[[The priests ‘incantate’ their lines, and the survivors punctuate a choral Le-le-le! …]]]

This was the ill-fated boat called Mobutu! (lele-le-lele-lele)
It capsized in the deep waters of the Zandara (…)
In this day of the week in this year of the Lord (…)
Oh Forests hear! O birds of the skies hear! (…)
O thee indifferent waters that swallows life! (…)
Today again here is your rich harvest decorating your banks! (…)

[[[[In a different setting in a village where marauding soldiers moved through]]]] the incantations would go like:

Grandmother was fishing for fun in the pond as she is wont to do
Soldiers passed by and shot her dead for fun as they are wont to do! [lele…]
The wife of so and so was pregnant with twins and a proud mother she was set to be
The soldiers first tore her from behind then delivered her with a machete caesarean [.le-le...]

Deep in the Kongo then, when villages re-gather to count survivors of the various massacres, the Le-le-le-lele can go on for days, as they tell THE STORY OF THEIR TIMES, mentioning every name they can remember, and in that sense, guaranteeing them good reception at the land of the dead.

You will remember of course, that outside the Kongo, even inside the Kongo for the government, they do not KEEP STATISTICS of the dead! ---Well, I have news for yout: Just like you saw Obama reading all the 3000 names of the septemeber 11 Twin-tower Victims on a commemoration day, so too, deep in the Jungles of Afrika, cultures do remember. You have to see it to believe it. Le-le-les mentioning names of villagers killed by Leopold troops 150 years ago!

But O Yes Otish, the poetry of the Kongo tries to remember them all, and tell it to the forests! {Like we could say CNN broadcasts its News to the winds!]

And then when the parasite Kishasha discovers the golden rhythm and transports them to nightclub mode, the echoes of the Kongolese dead punctuate every bar where African Music is played all over the world. For music from the Kongo, is the world leader in this respect!

THE FOOTNOTE:

It did not take long for the sexualisation and reform argument to end, when the following words were heard to Lelelele in the slums of Kinshasha:

An Idiot from the bushes of Tanzania has usurped power in Kinshasha
And while he can not pay his looting soldiers, he wants to ban dances! –lelelelle!
A puppet of Uganda and Rwanda has nestled his regime in Kinshasha
And with his feeble mind he now seeks to ban the dances of our Land! ---lelele….
Lele-lele-le-le ---Banyamulenge go Home
Lelelele –Go back to your cockroach land!
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The nightclub versions usually have no words, the audience will fill that in for themselves! And Joseph Kabila, like Mobutu, is comfortable with the nightclub silence!

Culture!? Like Goebbels, I will go for my gun when I hear that word!

People like Museveni think they know African culture and can base restrictive legislation on it? ---he is just a mooing ankole longhorn! Booooo!

And I will be back! -----lelelelelelelle!

[jakaswanga]

THE CURVACEOUS COP LINDA OKELLO, WHAT EXACTLY IS HER CRIME?

twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23KenyansforLindaOkello

#BBCtrending: Twitter storm over Kenyan policewoman's 'tight' skirt

3 hours ago

A policewoman's uniform in Kenya has caused a social media storm. Kenyans on Twitter are outraged after Corporal Linda Okello was reprimanded for wearing a tight skirt. Thousands tweeted their messages of support using the hashtag #KenyansForLindaOkello.

It's not the first time police uniforms have hit the headlines in Kenya. Last year police were barred from wearing lipstick and big earrings while on duty as it was considered "unprofessional". The move angered MPs who said it was "archaic and extreme".

Anne-Marie Tomchak of #BBCtrending reports.

Produced by Neil Meads

Was Linda Okello's skirt appropriate? Get in touch with us on Twitter @bbctrending. All our stories are at BBC.com/trending

==Linda okello.



nairobinews.nation.co.ke/policewoman-in-skirt-saga-fears-of-a-looming-transfer/

A female traffic police corporal in Kiambu county now fears she will be transferred to a distant outpost following the furore surrounding her official uniform.

Corporal Linda Okello was published on Sunday Nation newspaper wearing a tight skirt while on official duty at the KCB Kenya national rally championship in Kiambu.

Speaking exclusively to Nairobi News, Corporal Okello recounted how she was summoned by Kiambu County Commandant James Mugeria on Monday morning and told to give an explanation why her official skirt was tight.

She was also instructed to carry along the skirt for verification on whether it was the official police uniform she was issued.



Throughout the questioning, Corporal Okello insisted that the skirt was her official uniform and that she had gained weight since it was issued.

County Commandant James Mugeria gave her back the skirt after the grilling.

The policewoman now fears she will be transferred to a distant hardship area.

Nairobians started a Twitter campaign to protest against the alleged disciplinary action.

Dubbed #KenyansforLindaOkello and #PoliceUniform, the campaign condemned Corporal Okello’s ‘victimisation’.

Robert Alai tweeted ‘@ukenyatta @igkimaiyo @joelenku Since when the photo appeared on our newspapers, the female police officer has not had peace #PoliceUniform’

He added ‘I thought crime and terrorism was keeping police bosses busy. Why target this poor officer? @ukenyatta @igkimaiyo @joelenku #PoliceUniform’

The policewoman was pictured to illustrate the security that was beefed up during the national rally championship in Kiambu.

Related Stories:

nb: IT will be noted, that Segolene Royal, the former wife of Francois Hollande the current French president, on her appointment to the cabinet [after the inglorious fall from the Elysee of the (Valerie Trierweiller.)the woman who dethroned her from Francois bed, has ordered a new conservative dress code for her female staff: No decollete, and certainly curve-revealing skirts like this one of Kenya's lovely Linda.

As to the jokes about it, if I find time I will tune you up on this thread. jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8926
www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/why-sgolne-royal-is-right-about-dcolletage-9293274.html
here is a considered view

How we have all laughed. “Shame on you, Ségolène!” wrote one female columnist. “You live in a society where female style is second to none and to carp about what (younger) women wear sounds catty and disloyal.”

There have been endless (catty) mentions of the minister’s age, and of the fact that she was once President Hollande’s partner. Old photographs in which the Royal poitrine is clearly visible have been gleefully published.

.......
Segolene can not stand this? just what blows Francois away! literally!

Some men, Germaine: the stupid, the fearful, the sexually insecure, the pornified. There are a lot of them around. As Laura Bates’s admirable Everyday Sexism Project has shown, women and girls are daily subjected to small acts of male prejudice and bullying. What was once widely dismissed as a bit of banter or innocent if uninvited flirting is now recognised for what it is – an unattractive expression of the perceived power of men over women.

Because sexism still exists, the way influential women present themselves in professional life is all the more important. The argument for equality of opportunity in the workplace is weakened if politicians, TV presenters and even feminist polemicists continue to play the very game of which they disapprove. When young women are encouraged to use their sexuality as part of their professional armoury at work – perhaps somehow to even out the inbuilt gender imbalance – it is an admission of defeat. They are being told to exploit their own kind of inequality

[OtishOtish]

Jakaswanga:

I just read about this and did a search on Google for "Linda Okello images". One of them is very ... interesting?

I will leave the president to presidential business, but what are your thoughts on the dangers of otherwise avoidable accidents by  distracted males?

[jakaswanga]

Apr 30, 2014 23:02:24 GMT 3 OtishOtish said:

Jakaswanga:

I just read about this and did a search on Google for "Linda Okello images". One of them is very ... interesting?

I will leave the president to presidential business, but what are your thoughts on the dangers of otherwise avoidable accidents by  distracted males?

Using mobile hand-held devices is a greater danger, a greater distraction!



From the no comment series!

[jakaswanga]

KING KONG TO BE BANNED!? THESE UGANDAN MPIGS CAN NOT BE SERIOUS!

KAMPALA
www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Cabinet-bans-erotic-dances--sexually-suggestive-language/-/688334/3180354/-/j6b2p6/-/index.html

The Cabinet has agreed to ban erotic dances and drama as well as vulgar language on broadcast media, Information Minister, Jim Muhwezi, has said.

Those court will find to have flouted the new regulations could be fined Shs10 million or serve up to ten years in prison.
In the extreme cases, the offenders would have to pay the fine and serve a 10–year prison term.
Thus far, Mr Muhwezi said some people and women activists have misunderstood the Anti–pornography Act, 2014, thinking it bans miniskirts.

The guidelines prohibit broadcasting of sexually explicit material in the form of still pictures, video footage and vulgar presenter utterances on our media airwaves.”

And they have commissioned a software firm to rig all smart devices to be sold in Uganda. Try a lewd view on the net, BOOM, the device switches off automatically! It is firewall Mark II.

But first, Who is King Kong MC?

Here is a sample of King Kong MC! Doing what it does best
Dancing the Sembela (by Sakata). Not really dancing, moving and satirizing dance!





Okay, that is not sexually explicit! How about some forms of body motion being depictions of a 'vulgar utterances'?

I gotta think some more! when the ruling class grows paranoid toward culture! only yesterday they presided over a blatantly rigged election. Can I believe the understand the concept MORALITY!?

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THE PERSECUTION OF PANADOL WABASAJJA (JEMIMAH KANSIIME)

Precedent established?

Let me rehash a bit of this case, back in the limelight with this edification

Cabinet bans erotic dances, sexually suggestive language, sets shs10m fine

By NELSON WESONGA

Posted Thursday, April 28 2016

At the beginning of this month, Ethics minister Simon Lokodo said the government would next fiscal year spend Shs2.6 billion on pornography detecting software.
The software would be installed on electronic gadgets such as mobile phones and even computers, which would automatically send an alert to the control room – giving the details about the kind of gadget being used for pornography.

All this, Mr Lokodo said, is meant to ease the enforcement of the anti-pornography act

Earlier on last year

Ugandan pop star Jemimah Kansiime arrested and jailed for wearing short dress in music video

Jenn Selby . Thursday 21 May 2015

If she's found guilty of breaking the country's strict new anti-pornography laws, the singer could be set to face a jail sentence of up to 10 years

Ugandan pop star Jemimah Kansiime is facing a long spell in jail after conservative politicians in the country agreed that she had broken the country’s hardline new anti-pornography laws by wearing a short dress in a music video.

The 21-year-old singer was hunted down and arrested alongside her manager, Didi Muchwa Mugisha, in November after ethics minister Simon Lokodo described the video for her single “Ensolio Yange” (which has since been removed) as “obscene and vulgar”.
Kansiime, who also appears in a bikini covered in foam, has already spent five weeks in jail. The YouTube clip has been viewed 190,000 times.

“I was aware that there are some sections of society that are conservative,” she told The Guardian.
“I was just experimenting to see if I put on a short dress, will the audience like it?”

Mugisha pleaded guilty to his charges, and escaped with a fine of 200,000 Ugandan shillings (£43). However, Kansiime pleaded not guilty, and was imprisoned for five weeks while she gathered funds for her bail.
Under the law, which came into effect in February, if Kansiime is found guilty of “wilfully and unlawfully producing, trafficking, importing, selling and abetting pornography”, she could face up to 10 years in jail.
Kansiime’s lawyer, Isaac Semakadde, argues that her case is a landmark challenge on the creative rights of expression for Ugandan performers.

www.independent.co.uk/news/people/ugandan-pop-star-jemimah-kansiime-arrested-and-jailed-for-wearing-short-dress-in-music-video-10267691.html
Kansiime is due in court later this month.

Heere is a Kenyan (Cabu Gah) columnist's denunciation of the medicine for men on the video NKULINZE, now only available under the counters.

www.ghafla.co.ke/news/music/23652-cabu-gah-diaries-whaaaaaaaaaaaat-forget-blaqy-and-risper-faith-this-is-the-most-disgusting-music-video-in-africa-in-the-whole-of-africa

CABU GAH DIARIES....Whaaaaaaaaaaaat???!!! Forget Blaqy and Risper Faith. This is the MOST Disgusting music video in Africa! In the whole of Africa!

Warning! 18+ MATERIAL.
Monday, 08 September 2014 11:53 , Written by Cabu Gah

NB: No worries though, because there is still a lot of semi-nude to nude butts shaking pretty on youtube or any channel you choose on the digital smart box now ubiquitous in living rooms everywhere –----think of American bootilicious and thongy hot-panting stars like Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Rihana. That is what they wont have in Uganda. We will have to define the 'they' of course, seeing that Uganda is the land of the original mapouka-pouka.

More about 'MODERN' UGANDA MUSIC LATER!

Meanwhile here is, from an economistic perspective, a contemplative take from the Ugandan Monitor on the material background.
www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Entertainment/what-s-Beneath-singer-Panadol-s--indecent--music/-/812796/2529606/-/14rtts9z/-/index.html

what’s Beneath singer Panadol’s ‘indecent’ music

By Didas Kisembo. Posted Friday, November 21 2014

In Summary

An up-and-coming musician is in jail for making a music career out of illegal videos. Panadol is a symptom of a society whose young people dream of a better life but without viable opportunities

It is projected that Uganda, that currently has a population of about 35 million will have its unemployment rate that stood at 4.2 per cent in 2009 according to an International Labour Organisation (ILO) statistic, shoot up by almost two percentage points to six per cent in 2014. The total labour force in Uganda was last measured in 2010 by World Bank and it stood at 13 million.

However, Uganda’s low unemployment rate may be deceiving if one is too quick to judge. Yes, most Ugandans are employed but the problem is they are involved in low productive formal and informal sector activities. About 85 per cent of the labour is in rural areas, a notable percentage of the labour force – 30 per cent of which, is illiterate.
Economic analysts argue that the growing private sector is to greater extent responsible for the current state of affairs.

“A big proportion of graduates are actually unemployed, the thinking was the private sector would create jobs but unfortunately, the ones it is creating are unattractive to the graduates and the skill-set they demand are not suite for these graduates either,” explains Mr Lawrence Bategeka, an independent economic analyst in Uganda.

“Most of the East African countries have the same economic structures, so the situation in one is never far from the other,” adds Mr Bategeka.

In 2013, East African governments invested heavily in natural resources and infrastructure and good harvests to achieve sustained robust growth. As a result the GDP for the countries across the regional block rose.

However, this did not impact on the labour markets positively since employment growth slowed down in 2013, leading to a further upward revision of unemployment rates. This was a result – amongst other reasons – high wage bills in Uganda and Kenya for example, which made the supply of labour greater than the demand.

Another area of concern is the rising numbers in youth unemployment figures across the region. For example Uganda has one of the youngest and fastest growing populations in Africa, it has many young people entering the labour market each year, and yet 2013 statistics from government estimate that for the 400,000 youth that are churned out annually into the labour market, there are only 9,000 available jobs.
“We must find a way to harness this labour, leaving our economies to be determined by price incentives is just not enough, meaningful job creating investments have to be made,” Mr Bategeka emphasises.

According to the Africa Development report 2014, half of the population in sub-Saharan Africa today is under 25 years of age. Each year between 2015 and 2035, there will be half a million more 15-year-olds than the year before.

Tracing Panadol’s roots

Tracing the roots of Panadol’s background is no easy task.
The only link to her physical world is by telephone. No wonder, the minister and police had to trick the singer in order to apprehend her.

Kansiime, 21, went into provocative music business as survival and did know what awaited her at the end of the tunnel.
For somebody with a strong digital footprint – several videos on online platforms such as YouTube, numerous photos and three Facebook accounts – it is surprisingly difficult to locate her home.
Next Magazine tried to retrace her journey to understand the circumstances under which Panadol, who is now in jail, got into the pornographic music business, but her mobile number is off as she is in prison.
Her closest associate Producer Didi – who is probably the next best option to tell her story– has since gone underground after he was bailed out of jail.
Kansiime aka Panadol could not raise sureties in court to get bail – pointing to the conditions of her friends and relatives. Court could not deem them credible.

So, what are the cultural politics of the political elite persecuting the likes of the tranquiliser
for men, Jemimah Kansiime? Lokodo is a priest by training! (thinking of the siege his ilk have laid on the mind of Kenya's attorney general on the Atheist question, I think we are in the thick of a cultural war. And thus I will have to dust and oil the smart weapon, AMILCAR CABRAL.

Political career of SIMON LOKODO

Simon Lokodo is a Ugandan politician. He is the State Minister of Ethics & Integrity in the Office of the President, in the Cabinet of Uganda.

See also: LGBT rights in Uganda and Homophobia

At the age of 49, Lokodo first entered politics in June 2006 to contest in a special election where the incumbent member of parliament had died of natural causes.[6] Before that, he was the parish priest for Kaabong Parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kotido.[5] He was ex-communicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI when he joined politics.[7][8] He won the special election and began representing Dodoth County, Kaabong District, in the parliament. In February 2009, he was appointed to the cabinet as the Minister of State for Industry & Technology. [2] In the cabinet reshuffle of 27 May 2011, he was relocated to the Ethics & Integrity portfolio.

He is well known for challenging homosexuality in all forms. In 2012, he and the police raided and shut down a gay activist workshop. He was quoted as saying, "I have closed this conference because it's illegal. We do not accept homosexuality in Uganda." He also blamed foreigners, saying they should "go back home". Amnesty International condemned the raid.[9]
In 2014, Stephen Fry interviewed Lokodo in Stephen Fry: Out There, where he was quoted as saying "...men raping girls. Which is natural."[10][11][12]

In February 2014, dress code legislation was enacted, aimed primarily at women. Clothes that are considered revealing or sexually provocative were to be outlawed; "If you dress in such a way that you irritate the mind and excite the people then you are badly dressed; if you draw the attention of the other person outside there with a malicious purpose of exciting and stimulating him or her into sex," Lokodo stated.[13][14]

[jakaswanga]

THE ZEALOTS AND CONSERVATIVE FANATICS CAPTURE THE STATE TO DEFINE PUBLIC MORALITY

NB: it is not that they have captured the state, nope, the dictators in need of new sources of legitimacy after expending the democratic suffrage, have identified cultural conservatism as propagated by religious fundamentalism, as a new populist coat to clothe their tattered and decrepit regimes. And they are using corrupt and politically bribable churchlings to mediate with the people who, mostly peasant, are deemed equally conservative and primitive. Wrong.



Once upon a time, a sinking secular military dictator named Houari Boumedienne in Algeria, thought he could use Islam to buy his regime more historical mileage and legitimacy. It turned out a miscalculation worth a good study on who wags who, and who is the tail and who the dog, when a dictatorship is sinking and grasping at straws. I propose to say M7 is long mentally dead and his regime a compost heap. Uganda is ruled by a corpse, no less Zimbabue! The AU for that matter is quite a gathering of historical corpses so to speak. Only burial date yet to be set.

Sawa. Now let us do booty shakes and soapy thongs in music videos! much sexier than regime autopsies!

The case of JEMIMAH KANSIIME, alias Panadol as a precedent?

Cabinet bans erotic dances, sexually suggestive language, sets shs10m fine

By NELSON WESONGA. April 28 2016

At the beginning of this month, Ethics minister Simon Lokodo said the government would next fiscal year spend Shs2.6 billion on pornography detecting software.

The software would be installed on electronic gadgets such as mobile phones and even computers, which would automatically send an alert to the control room – giving the details about the kind of gadget being used for pornography.
All this, Mr Lokodo said, is meant to ease the enforcement of the anti-pornography act

Fools can be very entertaining, and they are unimissable on Earth. But if your country is full of them at the top, and they make the decisions, then you could miss the fun like the plague.
They are going to spend Ug.sh2.6 bn on pornography detecting software, while the skyhigh child mortality rates due to diarrhoea (ROTA) have to be reduced by foreign aid begged from the Mecca's of porn!?
en.rfi.fr/africa/20150525-uganda-performer-faces-10-year-jail-sentence-under-new-anti-porn-law

The law defines porn as: "any representation, through publication, exhibition, cinematography, indecent show, information technology or by whatever means, of a person engaged in real or stimulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual excitement".

Now let us go to 'New Ugandan Music' and view the popular videos in the light of the ban on 'ENGAGEMENT IN REAL OR SIMULATED EXPLICIT SEXUAL ACTIVITIES OR ANY REPRESENTATION OF THE SEXUAL PARTS OF A PERSON FOR PRIMARILY SEXUAL EXCITEMENT!'
In popular visual art, I was thinking this is the hottest subject on Gods bounteous booty-bouncing Earth. Well, let us leave the sensational belly dancers of the orient for pudding.

New Ugandan music 2015 HD DjDinTV: Seka Manala & King Kong dancing Nsimya Nyo by Jon



This stuff is called 'modern' Uganda music! New! But is it old vintage wine in new bottles!?

We will see as we manoeuvre the meanders of cultural rivers through time and history. But for the moment I will remark, that in the context of globalisation, there has been upsurges in cultural nationalism, and cultural nationalism can be very disturbing to alienated elites whose niche in globalisation is quisling to the international financial oligarchy, and auxiliary in the auction of the local resources on the cheap to the same, even as in rhetoric they contest to the contrary. –--More in-depth there elsewhere, Cabralian and Fanonian takes on alienation.

Now, on 'new' Uganda music:

If the Tanzanians are indulging themselves with Bongo&Flava and have more or less zoned off foreign music by the popularity of their own creations, Uganda too has discovered an indigenous riotous model for popular music, encased in visual media/format. These are formula videos of what only a decade ago would be night club oriented shows, but now the international staple and standard in social media. Even Vatican nuns are shaking booty in their buibui and posting on-line, with the Papa Matakatifu himself rapping the liturgy in lyrics dirtier than Snoop Dog. The modern music video as a vehicle of popular fantasy is simply too sensational to commercially ignore, and, to top it up, when narrowed down to artistic variations of local mapouka of which there is no shortage of indigenous talent, coupled to the transference of traditional cords to the synthesiser where a new generation of key-devils are set free to roam their limits, one essentially is facing a new religion in popular culture. A new awakening. (this rediscovery of the old and successful transference to modern technological sugar coats, is the same principle which has made ahangla (a misnomer actually) zone off Luoland).

The world may be globalised into a village, but the era of international super stars is surely gone. Everybody their wood. (Nolly, Holi, Bolly etc etc!)

For those who have lived in the countryside of Africa –----(and in Central Africa countryside works out to Jungle!)----- it is amazing to hear this stuff being called modern , or new! I for one use the word modern with a chuckle. The beats or cords, are standard stuff in rural funeral rites, though played acoustic and on different instruments, mostly percussive. Modern is therefore like the legendary Dr Nico of Africa Sukisa saying what he was doing, purposefully, was simply playing the traditional hand-held piano [mbira, likembe, kalimba] on the electric guitar! Of course it demanded creativity, discovery, ingenuity and intensity of talent –--but, ha ha, aint that what all art portends​?
And as for the art of publicly shaking booty to the intoxicating drum and charged beats, that has been an all-weather, an all-seasons jungle staple for millennia. In good harvest, or poor harvest; in single death or mass burial after a collective catastrophe, the expression of every emotion by dance is all out there in culture. Then there is the additional socialisation into heterosexuality by spell-binding feminine and BOOTILICIOUS motion. This is a permanent if ancient patriarchal institute (or an Ideological State Apparatus in Althuserian speak!) of indoctrination.
Now the digital camera has come to the jungle dance Olympics –-- a la Kibur'Kiri Mouyondzi, and the whole world can view the raunchy mapouka, developed creatively like the liturgy over millennia! And ooops! the devil is at work, or waaawuu ...
Very modern if you have no institutional memory!

It would appear the modern African city has a popular visual art itch, or psychological need for beats and dances of the forest –--raw; and too, a sociological need to touch base with re-packaged funeral drums, funeral chants and funeral dances (like the 1990s legendary Ndombolo from the DRC), not to mention the rampant mapouka booty shakes.

Here is Fally Ipupa, male dancing collective.




Mbuta Likasu.

NB: When Kenyan ladies won the 2015 World Frand Prix cup they did the LIPALA! like this



All very tame really if you know something about popular African music videos ever since the Rochelletes and Francolletes three decades ago.
Continued

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No cleavage, long nails, miniskirt: Uganda's civil servants ordered to 'dress decently

Jul. 05, 2017, By BBC


Women in Uganda have previously protested at being harassed if they wear mini-skirts. /BBC


Public servants in Uganda are facing a strict dress code after the government issued a circular warning them to "dress decently".

Female staff have been told not to show any cleavage, wear brightly coloured nails, braids or hair extensions, sleeveless or transparent blouses.

Men must wear long-sleeved shirts, jackets and ties, while trousers should not be tight-fitting.

Staff failing to comply will be disciplined.

The guidelines, issued by the Ministry of Public Service apply to all non-uniformed civil servants. But there is a feeling that female staff are the main focus on the new rules.

While women will be allowed to wear pant-suits, they have been warned not to wear any tight-fitting clothing. Dresses and skirts must at least be knee-length.

Uganda is a conservative society and women have previously complained of being harassed if they wear mini-skirts in public.

Female officers

To dress in a skirt or dress that is not above the knees, with a smart long or short sleeved blouse. Officers should avoid wearing sleeveless, transparent blouses and dresses at the work place.
To ensure that the clothing covers up cleavage, navel, knees and back.
Not allowed to have bright coloured hair in form of natural hair, braids and hair extensions.
Maintain well-groomed, neutral polished nails. Long nails with more than 3cms (1.5in), with bright nail polish or with multi-coloured nail polish are not allowed in public offices.
Shall keep the facial make-up simple and not exaggerated.

Male officers

Male officers are required to dress in neat trousers, long-sleeved shirts, jacket and a tie.
Officers will not be allowed to put on open shoes during working hours, except on health grounds/recommendation.
Hair should be well-groomed and generally kept short.
Tight fitting trousers will not be permitted.

The Ministry of Public Service's director of Human Resources, Adah Muwanga, said they had to act after receiving complaints:

"We were approached with complaints that, specifically lady officers, were dressing in an unacceptable manner, with mini-skirts and showing body parts which otherwise generally should be covered in Ugandan society," she told the BBC.

She said the ministry has overall responsibility to guide on the administration and management of the public service and "this is how we want the public to view us".

The circular further states that accessories should be modest, while long fingernails of more than 3cms (1.5in) with bright or multi-coloured nail polish are also not permitted.

Flat, open shoes are ruled out, except in cases where one can prove that it is for medical reasons.

Men have been told they should keep their hair short and neat, and not wear brightly coloured clothes.

The circular is derived from Public Service Standing Orders on dress code, put in place in 2010.

However, the BBC's Patience Atuhaire in Kampala says the dress code does not seem to have been paid much attention to up to now.

Muwanga said that staff who failed to comply with the new enforcements would be cautioned at first, and repeat offenders would face disciplinary action.

However she added "there is always room for review".

uganda is a conservative society!?

in their dreams!



AND THIS IS MALE POWER IN AFRICA, AND I DON'T THINK IT IS AFRICA RISING!

HERE ARE UGANDA POLICE UNDRESSING FDC’s official Fatuma Naigaga, and then considering to charge her with indecent exposure!

This comes a day after women activists on Tuesday announced a plan to hold a peaceful demonstration following an incident that saw FDC’s official Fatuma Naigaga undressed during police arrest last Saturday. The video of the incident has since gone viral on social media, attracting all sorts of criticism from the public.
Under their umbrella body, Women’s Democracy Group, the activists said the act by police is deliberate and pre-planned against women interested in leadership.

However, police spokesperson, Mr Fred Enanga in the recent media reports is quoted saying, the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) studying Ms Naigaga’s file to establish whether she can be arraigned in court and charged with indecent exposure.

THERE is stupid, and then there is stupid. Would our own Owino or Kiraithe be this brainless truly?