PROMO: Analysis of the Uganda Anti-Gay Bill Support
Channel: John Riley
Date: 2023-04-10

Tune in to Out-FM on WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York or wbai.org this Tuesday, April 11, from 8-9 PM EDT for a discussion about the recent deadly Anti-Gay Bill passed by the Ugandan Parliament this year.

Our first segment will include Stahimili Mapp’s interview with the noted Ugandan- American journalist, author Milton Allimadi, adjunct professor of African History at John Jay College of the City University of New York, publisher of Black Star News, and author of “Manufacturing Hate: How the Africa as demonized in Western Media” and “Adwa: Empress Taytu and Emperor Menelik in Love and War”. In addition, Professor Allimadi is a podcaster on The Black World News Network and hosts The Black Star News program heard here on WBAI Tuesdays 3 - 4pm. Professor Allimadi will discuss the role of the Museveni government in the propagation of homophobic hate and support of the bill, anti-gay movements in other African countries and the role of the US / American evangelical Christians in the propagation of anti-gay activity in Uganda.

In our second segment we welcome Julienne Byenda Mugaruka (she/her), Advocacy officer of La Colombe ASBL based in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. We will continue our discussion with a firsthand report of the effect of this bill and other anti-gay activities on the LGBTQ people and Trans women on the continent.