Juliet Nanfuka

@ChewingStones

Living! Learning! | Intersections of Culture+Art++ Gender+Media++ in Africa | Research | Random |

Kampala, Uganda
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    9 hours ago

    More than 4,000 guests have been invited to the next week. Minister Esther Mbayo calls it a "scientific" ceremony to which "a few numbers of people ...4,042" have been invited. Why, dear Lord? It's not like it's the first time he's swearing in. It's the 7th!

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    May 2

    Summary of all the threats and attacks against media since 2016 until present (2021). The data was collected and summarized by the Freedom For Media, Freedom for All coalition.

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    's proposed data policy in which the government will become co-owner of all data generated in the country has come under withering fire from local and foreign legal and digital experts. via 👉🏾

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    Apr 30

    I think about how Western Media is covering India and the pictures of the dead waiting on cremation. The obsession with death porn depicting non-white people Vs how western media covered New York and other places -the dignity they accord to particular bodies.

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    22 hours ago

    Yesterdays Plenary session had grown-up men arguing that consent cannot be legislated upon and threatening not to support the sexual offences bill if the consent clause was retained. Like wow! Wow!

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    May 3

    📢📢Today is Many of the discussions are coming full circle in 🇳🇦, the birthplace of the in 1991. Thirty years on, much has changed, much has also stayed the same.

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    May 3

    Today is . We remember that more than 1,400 journalists have been killed for their work worldwide since 1992.

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    Apr 30

    Until 19th century in India, there was a group of selfless scholarly Brahmins whose job was treating people during Pandemic. They used to travel village to village & vaccinate everyone without ever caring for their personal safety. Their failure rate was just one in a million!

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    Apr 29

    Like 30 years ago, we need visionary spirits, to protect from today’s urgent challenges... ..and build a better future.. where is a public good. Join us in Windhoek at GlobalConference 🔴LIVE NOW🔴

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    Apr 14

    Received video from Chad where police have fired teargas at a school (not sharing it as students faces can be seen). Acc to reports-police were dispersing demos by unemployed graduates not far from the school & then fired at the students too.

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    Apr 14

    I can't even with this one

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    Apr 8

    The financial regulators seem to have all agreed that FINTECH must go but are banks complacent because the generation that owns today’s banks compete with midnight meetings, connivance with regulators and forceful takeovers than actual market differentiation and competition.

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    Apr 8

    CBN and SEC when they see innovative, hardworking fintech founders doing well.

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    Apr 9

    2 birds with 1 stone in Nigeria: To boost economy after Covid, gov spending US$5.6billion on Solar Power Naija that will increase reliable electricity & help cut carbon emissions 20% by generating 30% of Nigeria's energy from renewables by 2030 with 5million solar-equipped homes.

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    Apr 9

    This weekend we have 3 Elections in Sub Saharan Africa 🇧🇯 🇹🇩 🇩🇯 At this stage we know all incumbents will retain power and the cycle continues. 😡

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    Apr 6

    We keep encouraging women to partake in the digital dividends yet the same internet is used to harass them and lower their self-esteem... Thanks for this piece

    Read more about our campaign advocating for Safe spaces for women online on our weekly Newsletter here > Subscribe and let's keep you updated on what we are doing.
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    Apr 7

    launching research report on “The Trends and Impact of Technology Assisted Violence among and in “

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    Apr 8

    Dear : There are a lot of stories to be told on the implementation of public infrastructure projects. Every time I use that road in Naguru above Police HQs, I have qns: 1. Who did this? 2. What were they asked to do? 3. What did they do? 4. Were they paid? 5. ??????

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    Apr 4

    Fintech growth areas (at random) for next 3 years 1. Pay later,EMI,Digital credit 2. UPI,Mobility,Bill Pay 3. Super apps 4. Data rich 5. Advance tech: blockchain,analytics, AI/ML 6. Crypto 7. Tokenisation,contactless,QR 8. Inclusion 9. Investments 10. India stack Anymore?

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    Apr 2

    The words "facemask" and "hand sanitiser" are now familiar to everyone, but for isiZulu speakers in South Africa those terms did not exist a year ago, until a group of volunteers took to the internet to create them

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