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Stella Nyanzi wins Oxfam International Award 2020

TEDDY TRACY NAYIGA | PML Daily Staff WriterbyTEDDY TRACY NAYIGA | PML Daily Staff Writer
January 17, 2020
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Former Makerere University don Stella Nnyazi is currently serving a prison sentence. (FILE PHOTO)

The Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression 2020 has been awarded to prominent Ugandan academic, writer and feminist activist Dr. Stella Nyanzi.

A medical anthropologist by training, Dr. Nyanzi has published widely in the academia on topics at the intersections of culture, health, law, gender and sexualities.

According to a statement by PEN International president, Ms Jennifer Clement on the organisation’s website, Nyanzi is an ardent writer on social media where she comments and debates about contemporary social-political occurrences, and she writes poetry, mainly on social media.

“She is an outspoken activist on women’s rights and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex peoples. In 2017, she launched the #Pads4girlsUg Project, a campaign to raise money to buy and distribute sanitary pads for schoolgirls in Uganda,” reads an excerpt.

Ms Clement noted that Dr Nyanzi is also known as a fierce, public critic of Uganda’s president and a practitioner of “radical rudeness”, a traditional Ugandan strategy for unsettling the powerful through the tactical use of public insult.

Dr. Nyanzi is currently serving an 18-month sentence for ‘cyber harassment’, in relation to a poem she wrote on Facebook in September 2018 criticising President Museveni (and his mother).

“Stella Nyanzi has been deemed a criminal by the Ugandan authorities because she has criticised those at the highest echelons of power; though her words might be colourful and shocking to some, this is not enough to justify the imposition of penalties, and public officials should tolerate a higher degree of criticism than ordinary citizens. At PEN we believe unshakably in the need for writers to be able to criticise, parody, and mock at the highest levels,” reads the statement in part.

She said the award recognises the Dr Nyanzi she has done for women, civil society, and in the defence of free expression.

“We will continue to amplify her voice until she is released,” Clement wrote.

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