Tuesday, October 25, 2016 11am to 12pm
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Interrogating transnational documentary film evidence on Uganda's homophobia
The visibility of Uganda’s homophobia in international media of the 21st century is highly commendable for highlighting the severe abuse of human rights of homosexuals in Uganda. Although this medium establishes its space as an agent of human rights activism and as a record of what happened to homosexuals in Uganda, it is important to interrogate the process involved in producing it, as well as what this mediated index forecloses as it signifies the severe abuse of human rights of homosexuals in Uganda.
Dorothy Atuhura explores three documentaries on Uganda’s homophobia and asserts how this media hypervisibility as a global phenomenon has not only produced conditions necessary for homophobia to thrive in Uganda, but also established Uganda’s anti-homosexuality violence as the new signature of Africa’s ‘Darkness’.
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