Speaking "ill" about the dead: Is it the new normal we need to embrace internet photo By Moses Muwulya About five years ago, several prominent people in Uganda have died. We have witnessed people coming up,especiallyu on social media to talk ill about them. "How they thought they treated them as if they will never leave the world"; and so forth. A prominent radio personality, whose name I am afraid to mention, was a victim of this new normal: '"Talking ill about the dead", which in the past was never seen. People, in their eulogies could only talk about the good deeds of the deceased. Should they have nothing to credit them for, which is literally impossible, one would at least forge them. However, slowly but surely, this norm seems to be phasing away. The utterances made by Pastor Jackson Ssenyonga about Pastor Yiga,who went to be with his creator, yesterday continue to pave way for exit of this norm. Before I approach pastor Senyonga divinely, I ...
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