Today on FUBAR Radio, Ugandan journalist Simon Kaggwa Njala reflected on his viral interview with Pepe Julia Onziema, which thrust him into global fame, sharing how "it turned into a big joke."
Chatting to Comedian Andrew White on the comedy news programme Pulse Of The Nation, Simon shared his reaction to the clip going viral: “I was really surprised, because I thought I was tackling a subject that is very delicate and quite offensive to some people, but ironically, it turned into a big joke, and it started making conversations turning into a meme.”
He continued: “Some people actually made fun of me in all ways. They dramatised everything. And to me, that was a relief, because it had initially been lost in interpretation, because there was a sense of perhaps this guy is fully anti-gay, that I'm an activist against homosexuality. I am not an activist, even though I detest it.”
The journalist speaks about the LGBT community in Uganda and whether we need to have discussions of about society: “I shudder when we make this an open discussion in in a society where cultural values are deeply ingrained, it is a moral value that we ought to discuss, maybe in closed doors. It's a bit absurd that today, the country is engrossed in such a discussion. It wasn't anything that would be palatable for public discourse.”
Later in the episode, Simon was asked if Uganda was ready for a gay comedian: “No, I think it would be a flop. If there was a concert of that kind, it would be a flop. We're not entertaining gay lifestyles in Uganda, and personally, I think that's the way to go.“
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