Why allow ‘Vagina Monologues’ to rape our country with alien outlook?
Feb 13, 2005
SIR— True to its nature, the Government is dilly-dallying about this new weird play, Vagina Monologues. We had taken heart when it was reported that it had been banned.
SIR— True to its nature, the Government is dilly-dallying about this new weird play, Vagina Monologues. We had taken heart when it was reported that it had been banned. But information minister Nsaba Buturo was quoted in the media last Friday as saying that the Government was only “opposed†to the title!
Buturo went on a long, meandering hullabaloo without a definite, concrete stand.
So are you in for or against? There is nothing like opposing and condemning: Either ban it or promote it. Period. Otherwise, you may as well look compromised by some circles, just like the promoters you are trying to accuse of stooping so low to get dollars! And the religious leaders? UJCC, Pentecostals — where are they? And our ‘honourable’ MPs: where are they?
A few years back, a friend remarked that if Whites came with a culture of people marrying their mothers, all Ugandans would follow suit, to be seen to be civilised and modern! By the way, you ‘modern parents’, how do you explain that to your curious five-year-olds and a visiting mother from Bamugolodde in Luweero district? God save Uganda!
Amon B. Mbekiza
Kampala
SIR— I am concerned about the presentation in Uganda of a film with a morally revolting title, Vagina Monologues. Whatever the merits of this film, the fact that its producers have no qualms about selling their product by an obscene title suggests that in their pursuit of capital, they are willing to ride rough-shod over the community they want want to sell their ideas to.
More broadly, this film is no doubt only the latest in a string of western projects aimed at breaking into our pristine African culture.
More noteworthy, though, is the fact that while we have a minister (of ethics and integrity) — Tim Lwanga — paid to deal precisely with these kinds of menaces, he, true to form, has barely uttered a word on the matter. Indeed, it is largely his colleague the minister of state for information — Dr James Nsaba Buturo — who has made an effort to shore up our moral defence, both with respect to this matter, as well as other manifestations of moral decadence, notably publications like The Red Pepper.
Against this background,
is it not more rewarding
to the Ugandan taxpayer to scrap the Ministry of Ethics and Integrity altogether, or, at least, entrust the docket to people who, like Nsaba Buturo, are genuinely intent on working for our country?
Waiswa Ndolombe
Toronto, Canada
Buturo went on a long, meandering hullabaloo without a definite, concrete stand.
So are you in for or against? There is nothing like opposing and condemning: Either ban it or promote it. Period. Otherwise, you may as well look compromised by some circles, just like the promoters you are trying to accuse of stooping so low to get dollars! And the religious leaders? UJCC, Pentecostals — where are they? And our ‘honourable’ MPs: where are they?
A few years back, a friend remarked that if Whites came with a culture of people marrying their mothers, all Ugandans would follow suit, to be seen to be civilised and modern! By the way, you ‘modern parents’, how do you explain that to your curious five-year-olds and a visiting mother from Bamugolodde in Luweero district? God save Uganda!
Amon B. Mbekiza
Kampala
SIR— I am concerned about the presentation in Uganda of a film with a morally revolting title, Vagina Monologues. Whatever the merits of this film, the fact that its producers have no qualms about selling their product by an obscene title suggests that in their pursuit of capital, they are willing to ride rough-shod over the community they want want to sell their ideas to.
More broadly, this film is no doubt only the latest in a string of western projects aimed at breaking into our pristine African culture.
More noteworthy, though, is the fact that while we have a minister (of ethics and integrity) — Tim Lwanga — paid to deal precisely with these kinds of menaces, he, true to form, has barely uttered a word on the matter. Indeed, it is largely his colleague the minister of state for information — Dr James Nsaba Buturo — who has made an effort to shore up our moral defence, both with respect to this matter, as well as other manifestations of moral decadence, notably publications like The Red Pepper.
Against this background,
is it not more rewarding
to the Ugandan taxpayer to scrap the Ministry of Ethics and Integrity altogether, or, at least, entrust the docket to people who, like Nsaba Buturo, are genuinely intent on working for our country?
Waiswa Ndolombe
Toronto, Canada