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A Campus Strike is Like an Action Movie.

The Monitor (Uganda)

| November 19, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2008 AllAfrica Global Media. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From The Monitor (Uganda) - AAGM)

Byline: Dennis D. Muhumuza

That weekend, the reality movie shot at Makerere University was action packed. Guns big and small sounded. Kicks were unleashed, injuries sustained and a student died. It was as if John Rambo had transferred his action from the big screen to the campus.

"Man, guys are striking," Richo, a classmate told me early that morning as I was heading to the library. "It's all hot up there." And he hurried on before I could say anything.

At Nsibirwa Hall, I found students in red undergraduate gowns blowing whistles and shouting tugende, tugende (let's go, let's go). And off they marched …

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