Uganda: Winnie Byanyima, No ordinary woman
At a time when even colleagues in her political party regarded the idea of a woman running for office as political suicide, she did not only run but won a parliamentary seat. It was only one of her daring acts that proved to women and Ugandans at large that all was possible, writes Brian Magoba
Imagine a picture captioned with “Mrs Winifred Besigye, aeronautical engineer for the Uganda Space Programme, conducting orientation for entrants to the Flight Engineers Training Workshop”. Feels strange on the tongue and mind if you are Ugandan, doesn’t it?
Photo Credit- Monitor
For the full story, published on 12 May 2012, see Monitor.
At a time when even colleagues in her political party regarded the idea of a woman running for office as political suicide, she did not only run but won a parliamentary seat. It was only one of her daring acts that proved to women and Ugandans at large that all was possible, writes Brian Magoba
Imagine a picture captioned with “Mrs Winifred Besigye, aeronautical engineer for the Uganda Space Programme, conducting orientation for entrants to the Flight Engineers Training Workshop”. Feels strange on the tongue and mind if you are Ugandan, doesn’t it?
Photo Credit- Monitor
For the full story, published on 12 May 2012, see Monitor.