Clarion call to female feminist lawyers in Uganda

Dear learned female advocates, feminists, Your Uganda Law Society President Senior Counsel Isaac Ssemakadde has invited me to amplify his call, as was shared on X by Dr. Stella Nyanzi: “Ugandan feminist lawyers are invited to liberate Ugandan feminism from oppressive power – democratize, decolonize, demilitarize and digitalize feminism! Don’t obstruct the (Radical New Bar)…

Dear learned female advocates, feminists,

Your Uganda Law Society President Senior Counsel Isaac Ssemakadde has invited me to amplify his call, as was shared on X by Dr. Stella Nyanzi:

“Ugandan feminist lawyers are invited to liberate Ugandan feminism from oppressive power – democratize, decolonize, demilitarize and digitalize feminism! Don’t obstruct the (Radical New Bar) RNB’s work if you are not doing it.”

I gladly accept. Ladies, we, the women of Uganda, need you to urgently heed this call.

Every public opportunity you get to speak, as a role model, ensure your speech contains less of that crippling ‘victim narrative of the societal good woman’.

Use your time to speak out and loud against ills. Speak truth to power, in a way that inspires others into action in furtherance of the good feminism agenda.

Do public interest litigation as Counsel Male Mabirizi does, but with a specific focus on furthering the good feminism agenda.

Take on and represent cases of women, such as of Ms. Elivaida Mugala and make them high profile.

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Ms. Mugala’s case is not an isolated incidence, it is the norm in Uganda. If it wasn’t for a female advocate, Winnie of Okalang Law Chambers, my toto (mum), who will celebrate her 80th birth anniversary this year, a couple of years ago, would have been similarly detained for her land, as Ms. Mugala was.

Counsel Winnie, when she is fighting for her client, punches hard, RNB style, while dressed in her colorful pant suit and in her stilettos. She made sure the male Police Officers acting on behalf of the goon saw her and understood not to mess with her! And, therefore, not to mess with her client.

I invite you to familiarize with toto’s story by accessing and reading “Investigations in Mrs. Owaraga Mbale Land Case Closed & Police Bond cancelled.”

Ladies, the experience of women and girls with the Uganda Police Force, as we seek justice and when we are the accused, many times falsely, is often unjust and traumatizing. I assert this from first hand experiences with the Police.

Through my fight back, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (ODPP) has intervened and my Pallisa Police files are currently under review in Kampala.

If you have not heard my story yet, I invite you to familiarize with the ongoing “Civil Suit 18 of 2022 at High Court Holden in Mbale.” I share up-dates, here on my website.

In the alternative, the ruling of Court granting me a temporary protective order is now a public document.

Ladies, learned advocates, feminists, I have used the example of the Police, but my clarion call speaks to the entire justice, law and order sector.

Please heed the call. And join the legion of those who are truly inspired into action by the gambit that is the legacy of Pope Francis (RIP).

We need you now. Thank you.

On reading a version of this post in X, ULS President Ssemakadde reacted with three emoji’s – fire, 100 percent, and laughing out loud. And so, for today, these are my favorite emojis. Signifying a communicated well!