On Facebook are images alleging Uganda police brutality – undressing a woman who is a member of the Forum for Democratic Change. However, Justus Amanya in a post also on Facebook shared video footage showing that it is actually not the police who undressed the woman but rather it is the woman who undressed herself.
Presumably, she did so in order to shock the police. Justus surmised that it was likely planned entrapment of the police – as in the FDC coached the woman to undress in order to embarrass the police and in order to score political points.
I have re-watched the footage presented by both sides, and not being camera or video smart, I can not really tell who has carefully edited or doctored the video for their specific brand of propaganda. I shall consult with my tech-smart brothers.
Nevertheless, at this moment, I fail to accept to elevate this woman’s act to that of the women who undressed for the authorities in order to protest state sanctioned land grabs in Northern Uganda and in North-Eastern Uganda early this year.
Read more in “Conflicts in Uganda’s land tenure.”
In fact I think, she vulgarizes that powerful action or method of protest that women world over have used to maximum effect.
“Maathai revolutionised the act of protest in Kenya by centering it on the female body. In urging the protesting mothers of detainees to strip when threatened by security officers who were threatening to break up their protests, Maathai wove traditional beliefs on nudity and gender together with contemporary political struggles to foment a decisive moment in the struggle that brought women into the centre of a political discourse in which they had only previously been included peripherally. She was an intellectual and an activist who ultimately did more to spur on the democratic movement in Kenya than nearly anyone else.” (Source: Nanjala Nyabola in African Arguments)
I fail to see how her act comes close to such acts as used by my hero Wangari Maathai
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