Humanist

What job would you do for free?

These past four weeks, a post that I authored and published in November 2022 has been trending as the second most viewed post on my blog, The Humanist View. With majority viewership from Uganda, followed by the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

I wondered how come. It dawned on me that it is likely because of the online social media campaign that the famous “ex-prisoner, poetess, scholar, protester, and politician,” as she describes herself on X, Dr. Stella Nyanzi (Phd), is currently conducting.

Nearly daily, she is publishing a series of posts on social media (X and Facebook) to focus attention on what she claims that the famous “award winning novelist, story teller and lawyer,” as he describes self on X, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, has abandoned his “church wife” and three children in Germany.

Click here to read the second most trending post, “Cyber bullying Kakwenza’s wife & children wrong irrespective of his ‘sins’. “

According to the poetess, her social media activism is working and already, help has begun to be extended to the abandoned “church wife” and the three children.

As for for me, I also celebrate that my activism against cyber bullying unintentionally got amplified by the poetess.

It is ironic though, how, according to the poetess, many who prior stood with her, shoulder-to-shoulder in the trenches advocating against human rights violations, are the same who are now cyber bullying her, in an attempt to silence her.

She is defiantly thick-skinned, the poetess, and has vowed to continue on until the abandoned children, especially, are taken care off.

The most viewed post on my blog these past four weeks is also in the realm of civic activism. Primarily for the benefit of self and hopefully the greater good – all ordinary persons, especially women and girls, who find themselves at the mercy of Uganda’s justice law and order sector.

Click here to read the most trending post “Civil suit 18 of 2022 at high court holden in Mbale”

Although with different dimensions, both posts are essentially about gender-based violence and domestic violence.

In both cases the perpetrators are male relatives and the victims mostly female relatives – a husband allegedly mistreating his wife, two daughters and a son; and in my case a decades older half-brother terrorizing a younger half sister.

So, pardon me, if I am overly sensitive these days about male-relative on female-relative gender-based violence. And my inclination to believe that the poetess is not just making up stories for the sake of it.

As she is doing, writing for activism, on behalf of the abandoned children primarily, I am doing for self and also hopefully women in Uganda in the context of the justice law and order sector.

My the poetess and I have the zeal and courage to fight on, writing for activism, when it counts the most.