Dr Stella Nyanzi Strips Nak*d To Reclaim Office (VIDEO)

UGANDA: Controversial Makerere University lecturer Dr. Stella Nyanzi on Monday made good on her promise to strip naked if she does not regain her office at Makerere Institute for Social Research.

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The Institute’s director Prof Mahmood Mamdani maintains Nyanzi can only stay in office is she teaches at the facility as promised.

The aged don removed her dress and bras hence exposing her nudity to the full glare of the public.

“My clothes are on the floor. I want my office. If you have locked me out with one padlock…Mamdani, I want my office,” charged Nyanzi after removing her clothes.

She hurled more insults at the respected Harvard-trained researcher.

Stella Nyanzi is a medical anthropologist with a PhD from the University of London based on ethnographic fieldwork of youth s*xualities, s*xual and reproductive health in The Gambia.

She has fifteen years of social science research experience in rural southwestern and urban central Uganda in the broad areas of heterosexual behaviour in the time of HIV/AIDS, adolescent sexual behaviour, female control of s*xuality, transforming masculinities during the AIDS epidemic, the gender differentiation of reproductive health, alternative healing - specifically Balokole Pentecostal healing of HIV/AIDS and transforming perfomances of death, disposal and widowhood.

Her current research at MISR comprises ethnographic inquiry into the politicisation of homos*xualities in contemporary Uganda - with a focus particularly on unpacking mainstream religious framing of and contestations about s*xual citizenship. Dr. Nyanzi is also conducting research about the vulnerability and resilience of young (refugee and internally displaced) women in Uganda towards HIV/AIDS.

Observers say this the first time in the history of Makerere University that a female lecturer is exposing her private parts to the public in a strip protest.

“I have thrown my clothes outside Mamdani’s office. I am naked as a I cry out for my office,” she said.

Mamdani, who became director of MISR in 2010, has since laughed at reports that Nyanzi was being persecuted for supporting the opposition.

“Dr. Stella Nyanzi was confirmed in university service in May, 2013, only after she pledged to teach in the PhD programme. She received MISR and university backing for a fellowship at UCT only after a written assurance that she was going to use the time to design a new course to teach in the PhD programme,” said Mamdani.

“Since her appointment at MISR, Dr. Stella Nyanzi has done only private research,” he added.

“So long as she spends her time exclusively on private matters and personal research, MISR can only offer her a seat in at the MISR library. The day she begins teaching in the PhD programme, she will be provided an office by the institution.”

Nyanzi, who hit the limelight at the peak of the 2016 presidential elections during which she used explicit s*xual modes of expression to disparage President Museveni and praise Dr Besigye, said on Facebook that “ Mamdani, is evicting me from my office because I refused to teach on his PhD program.”

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