Show it U ) J K : 'll : '' The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday December 28 2003 — A7 ‘V j a woman can be VP but have few rights In Uganda court hearing in March Mr ' Kazibwe opposed his wife’s petition citing his Catholic i faith and protested that hd’d Thecontroversial careerof " Kazibwe Wandira “only slapped her twice” after Specioza she had come home late with-- Uganda's first female vice ' a good explanation out was alle dogged by president month later after nearly a ' A tabbacks gations ofpolitical in office the vice prcs-decade bingand financial corruption " ident resigned Kazibwe said She publicly critiqued the she was going abroad foT fur- romantic prowess of African ther medical studies and her men Once she made headi divorce ease was postponed ' lines after complaining that But sotae say that a public the socks of male members of divorce was simply too messy Parliament smelled for a woman of such high But nothing approached the station “In the end political public opprobrium following she’s a woman in a society Ms Kazibwe’s decision to that believes that a married leave her husband of 20 years Enough: Former Ugandan vice woman must put up with any- president divorces abusive bus-“Enough is enough" she said and everything that hap'thing ‘bandfilin a March speech before in the home" says Sylvia pens the on for divorce grounds ing five for “encouraging rebel-- " Tamale a law professor at that Charles Kazibwe had rouliousness in marriages and Makerere University inKam-pal- a tinely beaten her philandered-anfor violating the strict African fathered two children by - Kazibwe is now at Harvard taboo against speaking pulv another woman about matters of the in Cambridge : licly University ' Nearly 10 months later she One Kenyan legislator Mass pursuing graduate ’ has resigned and left the coun- - was as grumbling that work Her lawyer says she quoted try But her influence is still the whole matter was a good does not want to speak to the felt as Uganda debates new women of V example why ' press! laws that would outlaw man- shouldn’t be allowed to work Activists have been lobbytal rape ease divorce for in at all ing to reform Uganda's women grant property rights Yoweri domestic laws since 1995 Uganda’s to wives and regulate for when the country adopted a polygamy which remains ‘‘affirmative action" policies new Constitution that guaran’ common throughout Africa which have increased the teed equality for all The proBut the bill is currently tied number of women in high- -' posed legislation has since : up in Parliament In a country ranking government positions hampered by an unusual that is at the forefront of pro-in recent years In Kampala number of delays! moting equal opportunity for ! Uganda's capital many and outright opposi--tio- n snags women - Kazibwe was the ! - women with sensible pumps ' ' most vocally from the first female vice president in ' and smart handbags now wait Muslim community all of Africa - it is the changes for buses at rush hour along-sid- e Imam Kasozi who heads to traditional home life that the men But in Africa the Ugarlda Muslim Youth are proving the hardest to ywhere professional men: in Assembly argues that the pro- -' make: business suits still use anti- -' pqsed bill is based on Christ- “Even the ‘liberal’ man has - : witchcraft charms it is one ' : jan marriage customs Under certain expectations at the the new law a man wishing to thing to encourage womento family level"!says Jackie Asi-- y : vote arid join the office work- take a second or third wife imwe of the Uganda Women’s force it is another to promote would for example! be Network a group that is lob- equality in the home : required to prove he was : - But Kazibwe’s case was eye bying for the new laws! “He capable of main- - ' wants a Woman who works opening to many professional taining his wives and provide women who admit they are far separate living quarters for and also one who serves him dinner’’ from emanci ipated in their pri- - r each conditions that Kasozi ' ' :J-j In the ensuing debate that vate lives Kazibwe was the V says contradict the teachings ' filled Kampala newspapers of the Koran'! exampje” says Ms Asiimwe “She was a powerful vice and call-i- n radio shows fol- !They are trying to create a : law to outlaw us in our own president but in private her lowing the vice president’s : husband was hitting her" announcement some congrat- country" tie says It is common for married In November the Uganda ! ulated her forspeaking out! ' Women’s Network began run- against domestic violence But : Ugandan men to take this- third tresses or second or ning a series of newspaper ads many others criticized Kazib- wives but divorce is hire At a to drum we a surgeon and mother of up support for the bill By Rachel Sctieler Christian Science Monitor ding to a third woman whom he has impregnated Muslims account for about - : T: i by telling the familiar stories of a few rural Ugandan women In one a first wife loses her home and her inhen- tance after her husband takes a second In another twoco- wives are furious to team that their husband has sold off their land without their know!- to pay for a church wed- - 15 percent - ! of the country’s population but polygamy is strongly rooted in Ugandan tribal culture as are ideas : about gender roles “Those things have changed with the Western influence : but they are still there" says Nsubuga Nsambu a member of Parliament whols fighting the new law calling it a con- spiracy on the part of single and “highly learned!' women “Inpublip Ugandans are very ' good Christians but when dif-edit Va home they get very ferent matter" ge r - V i " : I J "The guys you know and Trust " - : iidited to!' 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