A week ago, controversial Makerere University lecturer Stella Nyanzi stripped naked in protest of discrimination and victimization by her boss Mahmood Mamdani.
Dr. Nyanzi went bare in front of her office which had been locked as she was thrown out for refusing to teach in a class that she was assigned by Mahmood.
Apparently Ms Nyanzi isn’t done with Mahmood, she is gearing up for more drama with her boss and she has even dyed her dreadlocks red.
“I dyed my locks ochre red; a symbol of the blood-coloured war paint that valiant warriors wore in the past. I am gearing up for the world to turn its eyes from the spectre and scandal of my nude lewd protest against Mahmood Mamdani’s high-handed attempt to evict me from my assigned office, and rather focus on the institutional #RotAtMISR.
That Mamdani stridently violated my employment contract, foolhardly raped the Human Resources Policy of Makerere University, emasculated the appeals structures, denied me my labour rights, wrecklesdly told outright lies about the nature and productivity of my research, disregarded the Deputy Vice Chancellor’s letter of stay, refused to appear before the fact-finding committee, and is setting conditions for my punishment = all this bull-shit is indicative of the entrenched phallocentric culture of rape of the labour rights of public servants working at Makerere University. Deploying force, intimidation, victimisation, punishments and abuse of power to force me undertake duties outside my scope of work contract is blatant torture.
Considering that following due process, appealing to the relevant structures of human resources management, and negotiating with all protocol and procedures availed for intervening did NOT yield any resolution or relief, I retaliated in protest. While this war is about the sloppy handling of my employment terms and conditions, it is also very much about the mismanagement and lazy administration of MISR. The discussion has to turn to specific institutional failures. Power to exposing the #RotAtMISR.” Stella Nyanzi explained.
