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...KYETUME, Uganda??After living in and traveling through Libya and Tunisia, where my paternal relatives are from, I accurately expected that rural, sub-Saharan Africa wouldn’t exactly be the mirror image of life in Cambridge, Mass. But what has struck me considerably about Uganda in the past several weeks has not been the random and frequent brownouts or the latrine we have to squat in every day. Instead, at the non-governmental organization where I’m working, I have been most struck—and irritated—by some native Ugandans?...
...argue why I find such an implicit characterization both inflammatory, especially as the son of a North African, and dehumanizing. What makes the characterization worse, however, is that my project leader is an intelligent graduate of Makerere University—the most prestigious institution of its kind in Uganda??who is considering furthering her education at the London School of Economics and says her ultimate goal is to work in policy...
...KYETUME, Uganda??It took me no fewer than five clumsy introductions to catch on to why I kept forgetting the names of people here. The distinct sounds that natives uttered after I’d casually call myself only “Ahmed” weren’t first names that came in the form of two or three Lugandan words. Rather, I eventually discovered, when Ugandans tell new acquaintances their names, they often do so in reverse order: They say their last name first, followed by their first name...
...Boston on Saturday to raise awareness of what former UN Under-Secretary General of Humanitarian affairs Jan Egeland called “the world’s most neglected humanitarian crisis.” The three-mile GuluWalk aimed to draw attention to the victimized children of Northern Uganda??s Acholiland and the estimated 20-kilometer trek that many abandoned children walked daily to avoid abduction by the Lord’s Resistance Army. Robert J. Ross ’09, a member of the Harvard College Coalition for Ugandan Peace, organized a group from Harvard to participate...
...once visited D.C. and talked to a congressman who said he hadn’t heard anything about Uganda??but everyone has heard of Darfur,” she said, mentioning that the western region of Sudan is rich in oil deposits...