Many might have missed her tirades for sometime now after she flew out to South Africa for a research fellowship but the former Makerere University researcher, Stella Nyanzi, still has her minds back home in Uganda.
And so she began her Tuesday on a bitter note, scoffing at Ugandans born during the Idi Amin regime by referring to them as ‘foolish, impotent middle-aged Ugandans’.
Dr Stella Nyanzi, who undressed after her office at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) had been locked on instructions of the Executive Director Prof Mahmood Mamdani, now feels that the generation of Ugandans born between January 1971 and April 1979, of which she is part, have let down the country.
“My generation is a total sellout to our country. I was born in 1974. So I am referring to all those Ugandans who were born in the Idi Amin regime of the 70s. We are in our 40s or thereabouts. When it comes to Uganda, we are toothless, ball-less, zombies, Judases, docile puppets!, she ranted.
“How can we allow men (it is mostly men and a few eating women) in their seventies to comfortably continue messing up all the public institutions in Uganda? Who bewitched us? Who knocked out our teeth? Who castrated us? What will it take for us to embrace our role of redeeming Uganda and her public institutions? Aaaaarrrrggghhh!” reads her Tuesday post on Facebook.
She further adds that Instead of members of her generation ousting the ‘reigning menaces in our country and its public institutions’: “We say, “Yes, Boss!” “Okay please, Boss!” “I agree, Boss!” “You are right Boss!” Instead of challenging the tyrannical, corrupt, oppressive regimes that are rampant in our day, we idolise them, she adds.
“We are busy romancing with them in their own beds. Instead of organising to expose and kick the snakes out of the affairs of our land, we organise better ways of eating fatter bribes that buy our silence and complicity. Sellouts, just,” she further states.
Stella Nyanzi was among the people who criticized the conduct and results of the February 18 presidential elections; she supported and rallied her ‘followers’ to vote for Dr Kizza Besigye, the presidential candidate of the biggest opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).
Indeed, many believe this cost her job at the public university, Makerere University, where she was as a researcher. She is currently working as a researcher at Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies.
