Sex, lies and Ugandan politics: Mama Tendo is no longer a parenting site

It is a Ugandan thing to hide from real issues and seek inconsequential diversions. Is it any surprise then, that a women’s platform that started out as a parenting forum turned into a sex chatroom? ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA | NMG

If you search for Mama Tendo online, you will find that she is probably the most active social media presence in Uganda, with about a quarter of a million hyperactive women members.

(The oldest Ugandan online group called Ugandans-At-Heart with half a million members started as an e-mail list-serve in the 1990s by our diaspora citizens, but still has no specific focus.)