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| we need it. authored by YOMBO on 6. April 2005 at 11:58 |
| There are several women who do not know that their vigina is part of their body. They can afford to give in for sex even if they have a wound on the vigina, which they sustained last evening while being brutally harrased by their 'husbands' |
| v. monologues web posted on internet radio authored by the eagle lady on 4. April 2005 at 06:21 |
Hi,
regarding v.monologue clips - on internet radio :
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=11886&nav=&
please update on the bad parts to be edited out.
Thanks.
Beauty. |
| authored by the eagle lady on 4. April 2005 at 06:17 |
HI SIMON AND ALL,
THE V.MONOLOGUES WAS PLAY ACTED ON
OUR CAMPUS HERE SO YOU CAN HEAR SOME CLIPS OF IT FROM INTERNET RADIO AT
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=11886&nav=&
Please update on parts that may violate Ugandan - African culture which should be removed: the media council said unless the bad parts should
be removed.
Thanks.
Miss Beauty |
| no Sitenda Sebalu will monologue authored by rebecca Mukyala on 30. March 2005 at 09:23 |
| It is interesting this man I comes up to spill beans when you were abused by that woman long ago. Why didn't he say it then. This is politics kabisa. Do not agree. Even testing is bad, the science may play politics on you. Just put down your feet and stay put. |
| Overated authored by jaky on 30. March 2005 at 01:44 |
| I guess this was rather overrated and not given a chance to happen. I imagine alot of us were curious to know what it was or even is all about. I say give it a try. Give the women a break (and watch the play if it ain't too late). |
| FREEDOM OF SPEECH authored by Shai Guy on 24. March 2005 at 00:07 |
Let the show be allowed to premier in Uganda...but please take pictures of those that arrive earlierst and even those that show up at all...we want to know these people.
POINT IS....if CHIC..SECRETS and REDPEPPER were allowed to be sold on the streets and spun many many months...why cant a play of a couple hours? |
| Who made our culture superior? authored by Michael Mukasa on 23. March 2005 at 12:04 |
So the vagina monologues are disgusting to put it ‘mildly’ Mr Walusimbi says. Who forced him to watch? Why did he watch it? He appears to live in the UK, which as far as I remember is a free country. Why didn’t he go to a church instead? Indeed it is a shocking play. It is disgusting the things that have been done to vagina’s in Bosnia and Rwanda and Chechnya – not to mention Uganda with the young girls in the LRA camps!
On the same day that the New vision publishes a headline about a father making his daughter pregnant on 3 occasions, Mr Walusimbi has the nerve to claim that we have moral superiority?
Mr Walusimbi is missing the point of the culture. Who owns culture? How much of Ugandan culture today is not adopted from Arabs, Indians and Europeans? Would he have food without spices and salt because these were foreign? Or have we adapted these bits and pieces from outside to make it suit our taste? I can drive a German car, drink French wine, watch English football on a Japanese made TV and still remain Ugandan. Something like the V.monologues is just that. Take what you can out of it and leave the rest. The Japan he talks about has adopted – and adopted is the key term here – a bit of western culture but they have essentially stamped it with a Japanese identity – be it a Japanese Elvis or dyed blond hair – it looks and feels Japanese. No one has asked the audience of the v.monologues to change their culture or beliefs.
Why don’t our schools stop teaching English, then maybe we have some computer wizard who can invent a whole Microsoft like system in Luganda. This would really make us fly! Why didn’t our leaders and teachers think of this before??
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| Pr. Martin and Solomon Bareebe in his animal farm analogy were good lessons for us authored by Tom on 22. March 2005 at 14:27 |
Pastor we salute you, while Solomon should go to the board on third term and do the same for our revolution. People have always said it but never put it graphically like he has done here.
Then came some funny guy by the (fake) name of Momo. He wrote this brief, which using his own expression, was a B.S. It stated:
“its a free world
some pple go on about preserving our cultures or all that B.S....well i dont c how we r preserving cultures anymore...its a free world now and pple r to watever they want without the intervention of gov't”
To say the least this was of the lowest value on the board. Zero marks on a scale of 1-100.
I agree with Kigozi Walusimbi that we need to preserve our culture. Two examples where I was very embarrassed will suffice. On both occasions it happened when I travelled to the USA. During a cocktail one guy walks to me and starts a conversation by asking where I came from. Then he asked what my name was. I answered I was Michael (not my true name here). To this he quickly said, “Sorry, I mean your real name, the Uganda name. Michael is American name. I had no defence in that. Christian was not enough since Americans are baptised with American or Jewish names or English name.
On the second occasion, my classmate, a Brazilian woman asked: “What is a true African culture? I mean their behavior and dressing, cooking, etc. They always seem to behave like not themselves”. If I go to Africa what will I see as a foreigner or a tourist that is typical African?
She brought this out because we were very close to each other in group studies hence the free expression towards each other.
If I may ask, what native name is momo if it is not like he said, a B.S?
Apology for using his dirty expression.
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| Monologue authored by Kigozi Walusimbi on 22. March 2005 at 11:32 |
I have watched this play and to say it is disgusting is to put it mildly. We dont need this kind of things in our society. We need to preserve our culture. The only thing you can retain and claim is your culture once you lose that then you are lost. It is amazing when you hear people saying its a free world and yet they fail to recognise how unfair it is at the same time. Anyway why do we keep on copying other people cultures and values in this so called free world yet they never learn anything from us?
Look at the education system we have today, it is one of the colonial legacies. It was inteded to alienate the educated from his/her immediate environment. We were punished for speaking our mother tongues in the school compounds... if you punish a child for speaking his mother language what are you really doing to the mentality of the child? Its the englishness, why are we fighting to be english at the expense of our languages, culture and values.
The non english speaking countries of German and Japan have been able to develope because they made their cultures and values adoptable to science and technology. Yet we who made a foreign language the official language of our State have gone on exporting raw materials and import finished products more than fourty years after political independence.
We should be proud of who we are. Let us keep our identity. |
| go ahead and do it! authored by Kirimani Arthur on 19. March 2005 at 13:34 |
| The V.. itself is a common sight along the streets of our city and towns where shameless daughters of Eve brandish the thing at prospective customers. Yet I understand V..Monologues is just a play. Hy forbid it? Its like recogning a photocopy of a document while despising the original! |
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