Ugandan Scholar Stella Nyanzi Remains Resilient in Jail

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Nyakundi Report

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Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi recently visited Ugandan scholar and political activist Stella Nyanzi at Luzira Prison in Kampala, where she remains 'strong' despite her incarceration.

Nyanzi, a University lecturer, is serving an 18-month jail term after being found guilty by a Kampala court of 'harassing' President Yoweri Museveni on social media.

She has appealed the ruling but chose to remain behind bars rather than applying for bail, stating she wanted to 'teach Facebook to the inmates.'

According to Mwangi, Nyanzi still has the 'revolutionary fire burning inside her' and waived her right to bail because she knew she would be arrested again.

Her troubles began after she penned a Facebook post wishing President Museveni, 74, had been burned up by the acidic pus in her mother's birth canal.

Prosecutors described the post as a 'brutish attack on the person of the president and his late mother.'

During his visit, Mwangi also met popular Ugandan musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, who is a strong critic of President Museveni.

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