Resources about Uganda, the LRA, and the Kony 2012 video
Note: Use the URLs containing “bit.ly”; they are “tiny URLs” that connect to the full‐length web address.
1. Kony 2012 Video and Invisible Children
The video: http://vimeo.com/37119711 Unofficial video transcript at http://lybio.net :
http://bit.ly/H54QnB Website: www.invisiblechildren.com Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/invisible
Letter to President Obama from Invisible Children, Resolve, and Enough Project http://bit.ly/H7k5Yp
2. Sources of continuing coverage about Uganda and the LRA
Uganda Speaks – Trending Our Own Story http://ugandaspeaks.com/
allAfrica.com InFocus page on Uganda and LRA http://bit.ly/GSeEw3 and http://allafrica.com/uganda/
AfricaFocus http://www.africafocus.org and particularly http://bit.ly/GSm8BS (Also on Facebook.)
African Arguments http://africanarguments.org/
Association of Concerned Africa Scholars – Resources about Uganda, the LRA, and Central Africa
http://concernedafricascholars.org/uganda‐lra‐central‐africa/
Making Sense of Kony http://makingsenseofkony.org/
Ugandan media http://www.monitor.co.ug/ http://www.ntvuganda.co.ug/
Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/search‐home Some hashtags to search for include: #Kony2012,
#StopKony, #StopStopKony, #Uganda2012, #Ug2012, #UgandaSpeaks
3. Diverse African commentary on Kony 2012 (from the continent and the diaspora)
My response to KONY2012 by Rosebell Kagumire, Ugandan journalist. 6:21‐minute video
http://bit.ly/GTlv8T and transcript at http://lybio.net : http://bit.ly/GQXHUd
Selling Old Newspapers Shouldn’t Be Profitable: Invisible Children and Kony 2012 by David
Sangokoya, a Nigerian‐American, creatively discusses stereotypes of Africa. http://bit.ly/GUPJYu
The White Savior Industrial Complex by Teju Cole, Nigerian American novelist gives criticism in 7
Tweets and comments on response to it. http://www.theatlantic.com : http://bit.ly/GSsbe8
Kony screening provokes anger in Uganda by Malcomb Well, 2:40 minute video http://bit.ly/GRltBb
Women Civil Society Groups in Uganda: Kony2012 Campaign, Blurring realities! at:
http://www.isiswomen.org : http://bit.ly/H5vrMr
Kony 2012 Video is Misleading by a Ugandan American teenager. 5:47 minute video viewed more
than four million times on YouTube. (There is one brief expletive.) http://bit.ly/GUbA8U
“I’d Tell Anyone” – Food for thought about “helping Africans” by Juliane Okot Bitek, Ugandan poet
and author. http://bit.ly/HBtCcE
I've met Joseph Kony and Kony 2012 isn't that bad by Norbert Mao, former head of the Gulu Local
Government (2006‐11), saying the debate caused by the video is timely. http://bit.ly/HflQ63
Central Africa: There's a Light in the Get Kony Campaign – Jay Naidoo, a South African social justice
activist, argues that the horrors of the LRA – and the global system that lets it continue – cannot be
ignored. http://bit.ly/HMpECh\
4. Other Critiques of the Kony 2012 campaign
Unpacking Kony by Ethan Zuckerman, director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media and co‐founder of
Global Voices, discusses the simplicity of the Kony 2012 message ‐ and its dangers – and the Invisible
Children’s theory of change. At: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com : http://bit.ly/GUiuWH
Juice Rap News with Robert Foster: Yes We Kony‐ An irreverent parody of Kony 2012 – a rap about
then “white man’s burden” and the role of AFRICOM. 3:37 minute video http://thejuicemedia.com
5. History of the conflict with the LRA and policies proposals
A Letter From Uganda on #Kony2012 ‐ Sara Weschler of Information for Youth Empowerment
Programme in Northern Uganda summarizes recent Ugandan history. http://bit.ly/GSK9w6
The downside of the Kony 2012 video: What Jason did not tell Gavin and his army of invisible
children by Mahmood Mamdani, Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere
University, Kampala, Uganda http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80787
Obama Takes on the LRA: Why Washington Sent Troops to Central Africa by Mareike Schomerus,
Tim Allen, and Koen Vlassenroot http://fam.ag/HELi7R
Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Northern Uganda Books and articles included in syllabus by Adam
Branch, Fall 2011 http://bit.ly/H1r993
6. Recommendations and commentary on current U.S. policy
What Can We Do about Uganda and the LRA? by Association of Concerned Africa Scholars,
addressing issues of military vs. negotiated solutions and deciding where to make donations. At:
http://concernedafricascholars.org : http://bit.ly/GVGURP
Kony: What’s to be done? by Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at the
Fletcher School, Tufts University, discusses the military and non‐military framework proposed by the
International Crisis Group, at: http://africanarguments.org : http://bit.ly/GQzbaf
KONY 2012, and a military solution to the LRA crisis by anthropologist Richard Vokes, a detailed
discussion of the LRA and dangers of a military solution, at: http://theafricanist.blogspot.co.nz :
Beyond Kony2012 by Nicolas Tillon of Conciliation Resources (a peacebuilding organisation working
with people affected by violent conflict) and Ernest Sugule Kangoyangala. http://bit.ly/HLyyAv
#Kony2012 and the Warping Logic of Atrocity by Scott Edwards of Amnesty International USA,
regarding human rights concerns in Uganda and Central Africa. http://bit.ly/GTwXCk
Kony 2012, Save Darfur, and the US’ place in the world by Rohit Negi, Assistant Professor at
Ambedkar University, Delhi. http://bit.ly/GUxrbb
Interview with Ethan Zuckerman by WBZ NewsRadio 1030, discusses difficulties of capturing Kony
and need to listen to Ugandans about solutions, 2:20 minute audio at: http://cbsloc.al/GSQYOb
7. How KONY 2012 went viral
[Data Viz] KONY2012: See How Invisible Networks Helped a Campaign Capture the World’s Attention
by Gilad Lotan, VP of Research and Development at http://blog.socialflow.com : http://bit.ly/GRPXDb
Useful reads on Kony 2012 by Ethan Zuckerman http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/
Last updated: April 17, 2012
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