Prudence Nyamishana is a development communications strategist, blogger, and award-winning podcaster from Uganda. In 2012, She launched her own blog (www.prunyamishana.com) to leverage media's power in driving social, cultural, political, and sustainable development. With over 7000 subscribers, the platform has been instrumental in spreading awareness and sparking change.
She hosted the 1st Season of the Amnesty in Africa podcast, which featureds African human rights defenders’ voices. She has spearheaded numerous digital media projects and advocacy campaigns, becoming a voice in Africa's civic spaces on various social justice and human rights issues. She has worked with civil society organizations both at national and international levels, including Amnesty International, Aids Health Fund, HIVOs Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Never Again Rwanda, Forum for Women in Democracy, Civil Rights Defenders, among others to support their communications needs. She holds a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict studies from Makerere University.
Nyamishana Prudence is currently a global writer for the Full Picture Campaign by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Our Voices, Our Futures (OVOF), which aims to address the pervasive issues of mis/disinformation, particularly its harmful effects on marginalised women, queer, and trans persons globally
Latest posts by Prudence Nyamishana
How are the Ugandan and Kenyan governments silencing dissenting voices?
Both countries criminalize protest leaders, with activists and organizers facing charges such as incitement, unlawful assembly, or treason.
Women's rights under threat in Uganda as conservative groups push disinformation campaign
The rise of the anti-rights conservative groups in Uganda and around the world has led to gendered disinformation that is threatening democracy and freedoms in the East African nation.
Uganda's tax on social media will widen the digital gender gap
"When I interviewed women living in...a slum in Kampala, I learned that for them, WhatsApp and Facebook are the internet...with the new tax, they will be cut off altogether."
Tired of murders targeting women, Ugandans take to the streets in peaceful protest
"And so I march. To remember them, they were not given any justice and no one was held accountable for their gruesome deaths. But I recognize them."
How ‘African’ is Northern Africa?
"Why are Africans from north of the Sahara sometimes not considered definitively 'African'?"
Ugandan Government Plans to Tax Social Media Users for Too Much Gossip
"Uganda wants to profit where it did not invest. Social media owners gave it out for free and you wanna tax it?"
Ugandans Call for the Resignation of Parliamentarian Who Made Pro-Domestic Violence Comments
“As a man, you need to discipline your wife," said parliamentarian Onesimus Twinamasiko during a TV interview.
With Age Limit Abolished, Ugandans Fear They Are ‘Stuck’ With President Museveni
"32 yrs of inefficiency and we are now stuck with this incompetent, self serving individual whose government is characteristic of nepotism!"
Helping Write The Story of Sex Workers in Uganda
Every day over 300 women go to Bwaise, a slum district in northern Kampala, Uganda, to sell sex.
Ugandan Academic and Sanitary Pad Campaign Leader Faces Criminal Charges For ‘Computer Misuse’
Nyanzi's story has become a rallying opportunity for Ugandans who oppose the Musveni government.
The 12 Faces of a Ugandan Woman
From the chess champion born in one of the country's largest slums to the parliamentary speaker. Celebrate them all.
‘When Your Palms Itch, You Will Receive Money’, and Other African Myths
Africans are sharing common myths they've heard on Twitter under the hashtag #100AfricanMyths.
Ugandans Don't Want Their Government to Bail out Big Businesses
The privatisation of profit and socialisation of loss. Must we all pay for business failure when we didn't all share in the profits made?
Ugandan Legislator Hatches a Not-Too-Subtle Plan to Make Museveni President-for-Life
"MPs proposing lifting the presidential age limit are enemies of progress. Why not lift death limit so the ruler can live forever?"
Ugandan Man Arrested Over T-Shirt Featuring Opposition Leader
"Can we come out and stop calling this a democracy because it isn't. Bloody tshirts. Put us in yellow jumpsuits why don't you."
Uganda's Defiance Campaign Will Not Be Televised
"Hot on the heels of #WorldPressFreedomDay comes #UgandaMediaGag. Ironic"
Cheers and Jeers as Ugandan Female Researcher Undresses to Get Her Office Back
"Our society really needs to stop objectifying women!We need to understand them through the lens of intellectualism not sexism.#RotAtMISR"
Ugandans Blast Government's Porn Detector Priorities After the Country's Only Radiotherapy Machine Breaks
"That 2.6bn for the pornography machine, maybe could buy a bloody cancer machine. Lokodo, that's the ethical thing to do."
Cartoonist Snoggie Gives Uganda's Very Serious Political Issues a Touch of Humor
Snoogies, a leading Ugandan cartoonist, uses art and humor to comment on political issues in the country.
The Power of Social Media in Uganda's 2016 Elections
"Freedom of expression comes with responsibility to it. There are instances of irresponsible reporting and commenting on social media."
Anxiety Over Government-Sanctioned Violence Engulfs Uganda as Elections Approach
"Don’t send your children to bring chaos in Kampala and cause confusion during elections, disrupt peace in the country, government will handle you…. you will be shot."