Sylvia Tamale

**Sylvia Rosila Tamale** muyigiriza Omunayuganda, era alwanirira eddembe ly'abantu mu Uganda. Ye mukyala eyasooka okubeera nga akulira etendekero eriyigiriza aby'amateeka ku Yunivasite y'e Makerere mu Uganda.

## Okusoma kwe
Tamale yafuna Diguli ye mu By'amateeka n'ebitiibwa okuva ku Yunivasite y'e Makerere, Diguli ye ey'okubiri mu Mateeka yagigya kutendekero eribangula mu by'amateeka erya Harvard Law School, ate Diguli ye ey'okusatu mu by'embeera z'abantu n'okulwanirira eddembe ly'abantu okuva ku Yunivasite y'e Minnesota mu 1997. Tamale yafuna Dipulooma mu by'okwenyigira mu by'amateeka okuva kutendekero eribangula mu mateeka erya Law Development Center, nga lisinganibwa mu Kampala, mu 1990, n'atikirwa nga y'akulembedde ekibiina kye. Yali wakuwumula mu 2022.

## Emirimu gye nga omuyigiriza
Tamale yali mukenkufu eyatera nga okugenda kutendekero lya African Gender Institute erya Yunivasite ya Cape Town   wamu n'okulambula abakugu mu by'enjigiriza ku Yunivasite ye Wisconsin. Mu 2003, yawakanyizibwa banayuganda abaali baagala okukyusa eneeyisa y'abantu olw'okugamba nti abasajja abeenyigira mu bisiyaga wamu n'abakazi nabo bafuna abakiikirira okusinziira ku muwendo gwabwe". Tamale yeeyali akulira etendekero eribangula mu by'amateeka nebigakwatako ku Yinivasite y'e Makerere mu Kampala, e Uganda okuva mu 2004 okutuuka mu 2008.

## Awaadi n'ebitiibwa
Okuva mu 1993 okutuuka mu 1997, yafuna basale enzijuvu okuva mu ba Fulbright-MacArthur, okugenda okusomera ku Harvard. Mu 2003, yawangula awaadi okuva ku Yunivasite ye Minnesota olw'okubeera omukulembezze ow'enjawulo munsi yonna, olw'emirimu gye gyeyali akola ku yunivasite. Mu 2004, yaweebwa awaadi ya Akina Mama wa Afrika Award ng'eno yamukwasibwa aba Akina Mama wa Afrika, ekitongole ky'ensi yonna, ekigatta abantu kusemazinga wa Afrika, nga kikulakulanya wabula nga tekidukanyizibwa gavumenti nga ky'abakyala okuva mu Afrika nga basinziira mu Bungereza nga balina ekitebe kyabwe mu Afrika ekisinganibwa mu Kampala, mu Uganda. Mu 2004, yasimbibwa ebitongole by'abakyala aby'enjawulo mu Uganda olw'okulwanirira eddembe ly'abantu.

Nga 28 Ogwekumi mu 2016, yafuuka omukyala eyasooka okusomesa era okuwa olusoma olwali olw'omukenkufu olwasooka ku Yunivasite y'e Makerere. Olusomesa lwe yaluyita, obukunya, okuwakanya wamu n'amateeka*, okusikiriza*, mu kitundu, mukusooka mu myaaka obukunya obw'okuwakanya obwa Stella Nyanzi mu yunivasite. Mu kwogera kwe, Tamale yategeeza amateeka ga Uganda gabeere nga gadibwamu nadala agatyoboola abakyala.

## Okulwanirira eddembe ly'abantu ababeera batusiddwaako ogw'obuliisa maanyi
Mu Gwokusatu mu 2018 Yunivasite ye Makerere yalonda Dr. Tamale okubeera ssentebe w'akakiiko k'abantu bataano okukola okunoonyereza ekyali kivirako okweyongera kw'okukabanyizibwa kw'abakyala nadala mu matendekero ga gavumenti agawagulu. Alipoota y'akakiiko yafulumizibwa mu Gwokutaano mu 2018. Nga eyali akulira etendekero ku Yunivasite y'e Makerer, yatandika eteeka eryali liwakanya okukabasanya ng'oli ku yunivasite ssaako n'omuntu yenna kasita abeera nga alina akakwate ku yunivasite eno.

Mu Gwokutaano nga 18 mu 2018, Tamale yawaayo alipoota ye eyali esooka ku by'okukabasanya, akakiiko akalondebwa gyekaali kakoze oluvannyuma lw'okunoonyereza. Yagiwaayo eri abayizi, abakozi, abantu wamu n'abakwatagana ne Yunivasite ye Makerere. Alipoota eno yakolebwa n'okunoonyereza okumala, okwalimu okwebuuza ku bantu 234 nga 59 ku 100mu beebuzibwaako, baali bakyala. Yanokolayo obulungi obuli mu b'amawulire bweyali ayogerako, nga kino kyali kisaale nnyo mu kugyayo obulabe obuli mu kukabasanya ekyaletera okwongera okubunyisa ensonga eno." Yunivasite y'e Makerere Makerere University kati yalambulula bungi eteeka lyayo ery'okubonereza oyo yenna eyeenyigira mu by'okukabasanya, nga balina ekigendererwa eky'okutekawo embeera ewa buli omu ekitiibwa .

Yakyogera mu lwatu nga awagira enkola y'obuwangwa ery'okwongera ku bitundu by'abakyala eby'enkyama nga bayita mu kubisika, n'awakanya nti ensonga eno ey'okubyongerako tesaanidde.

## Okulwanirira eddembe ly'abakyala munsi yonna

Okunoonyereza kwa Tamale kulimu emirimu gy'ekikula ky'abantu, okwegata, abakyala mu by'obufuzi, wamu n'eddembe ly'abakyala ng'ayita mu by'amateeka, abakyala abali mu mawanga agatanaba kukulakulana wamu n'amateeka , nga bino byonna agata eby'enjigiriza wamu n'okulwanirira eddembe. Ku ye okulwanirira eddembe ly'abakyala nzikiriza mu by'ekikula ky'abantu okubeera nga beenkana nkana, nga okukola ekintu kyonna wamu n'ekitiibwa ky'abantu n'abantu bonna okutwalira awamu." Akubirira abalwanirizi b'eddembe ly'abakyala okwenyigira mu mitendera gyonna egya ofiisi za gavumenti wamu n'okukozesa obuyigirize bwabwe nga eky'okulwanyisa ekintu kyonna ekyekuusa okubeera nga kiri ku gavumenti efugibwa abasajja nadala mu by'amateeka, eby'okuwangwa, enimi wamu n'emikutu gy'amawulire. Alina okukiriza nti mu kjwenyigira mu byemu."

Ayongera okukatiriza nga ateeka eby'ediini mu by'ayogera ngagamba, " osobola okubeera munadiini, ng'ate olwanirira eddembe ly'abakyala. Waliwo eky'ogera kinene mu by'awandiikibwa nga bivunula Bayibuli nga boogera ku mwenkano nkano"

Mu 2003, Tamale yatekebwa ku kulalala lw'abakyala abaaku basinze okukola obubi mu mwaka ogwo ab'ekibiina kya conservative bloc mu Uganda. Yawandiika okumala wiiki eziwera mu mpapula z'amawulire, nadala mu New Vision, nga agamba nga eyali talina buvunaanyizibwa mu ggwanga eri okusaanawo kw'empisa, kuba abavubuka mu Uganda baali bagenda kugweera mu geyeena. Yalumbibwa olw'okugamba nti abali beebisiyaga nga basajja n'abakazi nabo banditwaliddwa nga abamu ku bantu abatuuze mu Uganda era nabo akakiiko akavunaanyizibwa ku mwenkano nkano nako kabafeeko.

Y'omu ku bali mu kibiina ekirwanirira eddembe ly'abakyala kulukalo lwa Afrika, nga kino kikungaanya abalwanirira eddembe ly'abakyala mu Afrika wamu, okwekaanya engeri gyebayinza okukitukako, n'okulakulanya enkwatagana ey'amaanyi okwonegra amaanyi mu ddembe ly'abakyala mu Afrika. Ali ku kakiiko akawi k'amagezi mu kibiina kya Open Society Foundation, ekitongole ekikolera mu mawanga 120 nga kiwa abantu n'ebibiina ssente ezitali zakudizibwayo nga za kuzimba gavumenti ey'amaanyi nga erondeddwa abantu. era nga ewulikika .

## Okusuka kiremya
Tamale yabuuzibwa Dr. Purna Sen, akulira ebirina okugoberebwa abakyala mu kibiina ky, Tamale bweyagamba, " Tosobola kufuna birabo byonna, nga tomazze kubikolerera. Tewali kirungi kijja mangu."

## Obulamu bwe
Yafumbirwa Joe Oloka-Onyango, omukenkufu mu mateeka ku Yunivasite y'e Makerere.

## By'awandiise nebifuluma

* *Decolonization and Afro-Feminism* mu 2020
* *When Hens Begin To Crow: Gender and Parliamentary Politics in Uganda* (1999)
* "African Feminism: How Should We Change?" (2006) 
* "The Right to Culture and the culture of rights: A critical perspective on women's sexual rights in Africa" in *Feminist Legal Studies: Vol 16* (2006)
* Eroticism, Sensuality, and 'Women's Secrets' Among the Baganda'" in the *IDS Bulletin: Vol 37* (2009)
* *African Sexualities: A Reader* (2011)
* "Confronting the Politics of Nonconforming Sexualities in Africa" in the *African Studies Review: Vol 56* (2013) 
* "Exploring the Contour of African Sexualities: Religion, Law and Power" in the *African Human Rights Law Journal: Vol 14.* (2014) 
* Researching and theorising sexualities in Africa
* Out of the closet: Unveiling sexuality discourses in Uganda
* Gender trauma in Africa: enhancing women's links to resources
* 'Point of order, Mr Speaker': African women claiming their space in parliament
* A human rights impact assessment of the Ugandan Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009.
* Homosexuality: perspectives from Uganda
* Nudity, protest and the law in Uganda
* Paradoxes of sex work and sexuality in modern-day Uganda
* Bitches at the academy: Gender and academic freedom at the African university
* Introducing quotas: discourse and legal reform in Uganda
* Profile:'keep your eyes off my thighs': a feminist analysis of Uganda's 'miniskirt law'
* The Personal is Political," or Why Women's Rights are Indeed Human Rights: An African Perspective on International Feminism
* How Old is Old Enough? Defilement Law and the Age of Consent in Uganda
* The outsider looks in: Constructing knowledge about American collegiate racism
* Think globally, act locally: using international treaties for women's empowerment in East Africa
* A human rights impact assessment of the anti-homosexuality bill
* Taking the beast by its horns: Formal resistance to women's oppression in Africa
* Legal Voice: Challenges and Prospects in the Documentation of African legal feminism
* Law reform and women's rights in Uganda
* Controlling Women's Fertility in Uganda
* Research on gender and sexualities in Africa
* Gender, economies and entitlements in Africa
* The limitation of affirmative action in Uganda
* Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender and Sexuality, by Kamala Kempadoo and Halimah AF DeShong (eds)
* Crossing the bright red line: The abuse of culture and religion to violate women's sexual and reproductive health rights in Uganda

## Laba ne bino

* Sarah Ssali
* Barbara Ntambirweki
* Zahara Nampewo
* Samallie Kiyingi

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