Fox Trotting

At the Gaddafi Mosque in Kampala Welcome to the Mara Slightly vulgar, I know- but also really cool! Sleepyhead A one week old baby elephant! The safari crew: Lauren, myself, Naveen, Nav, and Sylvia (and yes we got out of the car...) The second time I have seen a leopard and not been able to take my own picture.  Guess I'll just have to come back again.... (photo cred goes to Lauren) Sunrise on the Mara - one of my favourite things

I mentioned back in one of my first blog posts Naveen and I's trip to Luzira prison to interview treason suspects, and I thought an update on their case was necessary as Naveen and I have become extremely attached to the men (and 2 women!). As a refresher, these 53 men were rounded up in late February of this year by CMI (the intellegence agency in UG), tortured, and then taken to the police station a month later.  All were charged in court on March 23 and they have been on remand at Luzira since then.  Unfortunately it doesn't seem that this type of case is all too unusual.  Naveen and I went back to interview a large portion of the men a second time to find out more details about their 'kidnapping' as quite a few were all arrested at the same bus park in Kampala. While we were at Luzira, we found another 8 who had been there since last summer! with basically the same story! Today Naveen and I visited court for the third time with the treason suspects.  The court s

Disclaimer: This was written last week, but the internet at work wasn't working very well for most of last week and then I forgot about it until now. So Naveen and I have done a couple of things since then, like visit the Gaddafi Mosque. Pictures will come, but probably not until after we get back from safari this weekend. So I thought I should do a blog post about my work, seeing as one of the reasons why I decided to do a blog was to help me with the course I will be taking in the fall about my internship. Plus Naveen and I haven’t travelled for the last couple of weekends. So I think I’ve mentioned before that Naveen and I have been working on research for a report on multiparty democracy and political pluralism in Uganda.  For me it has honestly been fascinating.  Although I did my undergrad in global political science, I mostly concentrated on Asia and I did very little on Africa because a lot of people took those courses. Before coming to Uganda I had so littl