Makerere University researcher, Stella Nyanzi has defended the student who turned up for the Faculty of education finalists dinner dressed indecently.
The lady whom we got to know as Naddamba Rebecca is in for a long ride and might face punishment by the university for her conduct. She has been asked to show explain why she shouldn’t be presented to the University Students disciplinary committee.
A letter from the Dean Of Students at Makerere University indicates that Naddamba was in breach of University Regulation 8 (2) (a) which states that “every student shall respect him/herself and behave in a manner that will not bring his/her name and that of the University into disrepute.”
Now, Dr Nyanz, who last year stripped naked and held a nude protest outside her office has taken to her facebook timeline to attack the Makerere administration for being patriarchal. Below is her rant;
Policing and punishing adult women for what they choose to do with their bodies in 2017 is appalling archaic misogyny! When are patriarchs going to let women be? If you feel so proper, manly, moral and respectable, please sew all women long opaque sacks to wear in public and save your loins from erecting in response to our exposed raw red-hot bodies.
Imagine the whole Office of the Dean of Students at Makerere University threatening to penalise an adult student for her dress worn to a finalists’ party! This followed an inquiry launched by the police station on the university campus. Simon Lokodo’s ambiguous Anti-Pornography Act is spreading its poison into free society.
I summon all the goddesses that exist to protect femininity and freedom of (bodily) expression. Women in Uganda need deliverance from the ugly chains of these controlling misogynists! Fuck patriarchy at Makerere University. Why shame and punish an adult for how she chooses to dress at a party?
