East Africa’s sin capital: How Museveni built a nation on the politics of pleasure
The Museveni government allows Ugandans a great deal of freedom for sinfulness, and in return they have let him remain in power for 42 years without revolting against his rule.
As the recent police actions against “indecent” and “revealing” women’s dress kicked up a storm in a new puritan push in Rwanda, something that Kigali would consider to be the work of the Supreme Lords of Hell took place in Kampala.
The Kampala Style Brunch made its annual appearance in Uganda’s capital. The women showed enough leg, thigh, and cleavage to blind an upright Rwandan morality enforcer. And the men — the rule seemed to be that if you have a deeply etched abdominal grid (abs), you don’t cover them under a shirt. Their androgynous fashion and look was clearly at odds in a highly homophobic country which not too long ago passed one of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world.
