Abstract
abstract This briefing investigates a popular sex education programme of a community radio station in the rural village of Nakaseke in Uganda. The programme, which is referred to as Ssenga (which refers to paternal aunts), hosts ‘elderly’ women who ‘educate’ young women about their traditional/cultural roles. These duties and responsibilities revolve around the household: child bearing, housekeeping and, most importantly, sex education and learning the traditional duties of a wife. On the one hand, it is commendable to include women's issues in community media debates and discourses and enable women's participation as radio-show hosts. This form of empowerment fits the ideals of community media and feminism. But, on the other hand, an analysis of the content and implications of the Ssenga programme is indicative of systematic disempowerment, as the programme upholds stereotypes that have traditionally restrained women from breaking out of their traditional domestic roles.
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