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thoughts on martin ssempa via Jackfruity January 13th, 2008 at 21:07

A bit of a graduate school application essay that was too snarky to keep (and also works better with accompanying illustrations):Ssempa is wildly popular in Uganda, revered for his admittedly successful work to stem the country's tide of HIV/AIDS. Liberal thinkers, however, see him as prone to radical conservatism, which extends to vitriolic attacks on the homosexual community and the public burning of condoms in order to encourage abstinence. I see him as the kind of man who has divided each page of his web site evenly in half: text on the left and a variety of large, softly-lit portraits of himself on the right....