Atuki Turner

I've #justsponsored Ravi Thiara, who's fundraising for Refuge on @JustGiving. Donate now justgiving.com/page/ravi-thia…

WROs meeting today in Kampala with embassies to forge new feminist paths ⁦@RaisingVoices⁩ ⁦@elin_hilwig⁩ ⁦@JudithAdokorach⁩ ⁦@NAWOUga⁩ ⁦@mifumiproject⁩ ⁦@FCDOGovUK⁩ ⁦@cehurduganda⁩

Women’s Rights Organisations meeting today with the embassies to forge new paths ⁦@RaisingVoices⁩⁦@CEDOVIPuganda⁩ @judi

Marathon starts in Jersey UK to raise fund to buy Mifumi school children in Uganda textbooks books where the ratio of kids to books is 10:1

Cheptegei’s death highlights link between GBV and property rights monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/le…

The murder of Cheptegei by her ex-boyfriend centres around property in the fact that women are seen as property over whose bodies property– in the form of cash or cows–can be exchanged. Put another way, women and girls are transactional @MattCampbell see mifumi.org

When children are treated as criminals for suffering crime: The story in brief. A spunky 13 year old girl, Lily, gives her father’s bicycle to a man to do boda boda business for her. Why? Her parents have abandoned her and her two brothers, 11 and 9, and gone off to Kenya…

Abandoned girl raped: Mbale village turns hostile. Read full story in the links below: links; atukiturner.com/index.php/2024… mifumi.org/abandoned-girl… #violenceagainstwomen @JoCoxFoundation #raisingvoices #fida #uwonet @RuthvanZorge @mifumiproject #cedovip #unwomen #HEROES

Thank you Ruth for being a friend of the women’s movement in Uganda @RuthvanZorge @Amref_Uganda @mifumiproject

It was a fabulous farewell do at the Dutch embassy, enjoyable as only the Dutch know how to make happen. Here with friends and HEROES colleagues Patrick Kagurusi and Michael Muyonga @RuthvanZorge @JudithAdokorach @Amref_Uganda @mifumiproject @NicholasOpiyo15

Farewell party at the Dutch embassy started off with a bang with Netherlands winning against Romania 3:nil. Farewell to Ruth van Zorge - diplomat, activist, dancing Queen, best ever. With sidekick Judith Adokorach. We shall miss you but do visit us in future

Poverty bites: A young boy broke his wrist.His mother was too poor to afford the required X-ray. A kind man learning of the situation gave her the 30,000 UG Shs needed, about $8. She used it to buy food. The likelihood of this boy earning a living in future is also broken.

Beaten and left paralysed for attending a night party - read Janet’s story here: atukiturner.com/index.php/2024… Please let me know what you think @JoCoxFoundation @twongye @ronassanga

Kings Day Netherlands with friends

When faced with domestic violence of course @BarackObama @mgmosinghi

When faced with domestic violence of course - @mifumiproject @Amref_Uganda @RuthvanZorge @Karin_Boven @cobbo3

Spent last 3 days in Mbale with amazing women. Talking should I stay or should I go? @mifumiproject @Amref_Uganda @RuthvanZorge @Karin_Boven @BarackObama @mgmosinghi

@cobbo3 This is amazing. So much that’s rich. I feel I am in the Shoreditch theatre already in the 16th century and I am acting as one of those Shakespeare famous female protagonists.

Blame Shakespeare for East Africa’s Democracy Shortage – And Also Thank Him For Its Brief Episodes of Enlightenment The opening of the Museum of Shakespeare, London, is listed among the “most anticipated museum openings” of 2024. Its story begins in 2011, when archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) discovered the remains of one of London’s earliest theaters. Little did they know it would eventually become centre-stage for the city’s newest immersive and interactive museum. By late June, the Museum of Shakespeare is scheduled to have opened its doors in the city’s Shoreditch neighbourhood and on the site of the former Curtain Theatre, an early-Elizabethan playhouse (and precursor to the Globe) where the great Bard himself put on performances of Romeo and Juliet and Henry V, and even took to the stage in fellow playwright Ben Jonson’s “Every Man in His Humour.” It will also be the first time that the theater ruins are open to the public. Visitors descend nearly ten feet underground and into a 16th-century day in the life of William Shakespeare, reimagined through innovative multi-sensory technology recreating the sights, sounds and even smells of 1598 London. A projected reconstruction of the playhouse sits right above the remains of the Curtain’s actual stage, and artificial-intelligence technology brings animated performances to life, so you can become a part of the action. Along with some of the playhouse’s original brick walls and a portion of the sloping gravel surface where the groundlings (the era’s lower-class spectators) once stood to take in a show, several of the site’s excavated finds—including a piece of pottery likely used for stage effects and a broken-bone comb—will be on display. The 19,000-square-foot museum is part of a larger 2.3-acre site that will include apartments, office buildings, shops and restaurants. Students of East African history will be forgiven for thinking there is a link between the region’s politics and Shakespeare. Tanzania’s Founding Founder Julius Nyerere was a big Shakespeare enthusiast and wrote and published the first translation into Kiswahili of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Nyerere was a one-party ruler, but of the enlightened variety. A social democrat, he was a humanist and a philosopher and did more for southern African liberation than any other leader in Africa and the world. His friend, and Uganda’s Founding Father, Milton Obote, who had a less glorious political career and had meagre points as a democratic, was also a Shakespeare man. He acted in the first Shakespeare play, Julius Caesar, to be staged at the Makerere English Department in 1948. He acted as Julius Caesar. In High School, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the country with an iron grip for a record 38 years now, acted in Julius Caesar. I am neither strongman nor democrat, but had my own brush with Shakespeare at Makerere University. Our Literature professor Margaret Macpherson who retired from Makerere after 36 years, was an acknowledged Shakespeare authority. On our last major Shakespeare assignment, I decided I would rattle the cage. I went to Macpherson’s office and told her I wanted to take an Africanist and political economy critique of the Bard, something no one had ever done. She looked at me for a few seconds with some besument, a little shy man, with the temerity to go off the settled path on one of the greatest figures in world literature. She asked me why, and what my thoughts were. “Okay”, she said after she heard me out, “let’s see what you have got”. I took off, and went rogue on Shakespeare. When she returned our essays, she didn’t bring mine. She asked me to go see her in her office. I went shaking, fearing I had blown it and my chance to graduate with a decent grade. She handed it to me, and on the top in a big writing was “A+”. It was the highest grade I had ever gotten in any of her assignments. Getting on in years, Macpherson retired to Cumbria, in North West England. Most times I was in London, I took the train to Cumbria to see her. I met her children, and her grandchildren. She had a bungalow with a big garden, where she grew fruit and vegetables. She would pick fruit, make chutney, and we would spread it on scones as we spent hours sitting at her table drinking tea, and talking Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ugandan gossip. She would give me several envelopes with 200 and 300 Pound bills, to take back to Uganda and distribute to families of friends she had known over her years at Makerere. Macpherson died on August 12, 2011. google.com/url?sa=i&url=h…