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Symposiums, meetings, visits to social-action projects, movie premieres…Even more disconcerting, I was introduced in numerous WhatsApp groups composed of both the organisation staff members and the alumnae that have passed by its Women-Leadership programmes. To be honest, this space is in constant change…And my research with it! Been deeply grateful for the warm welcoming received, its members have integrated me from the very first day in many of the activities they undertake as organisation.

However, the contribution has become far more significant. The internship at Akina Mama wa Afrika, which is one of the most active organisations in the country when it comes to women’s rights, was to provide me with access to some of these women.

As the point of departure, I had taken the ‘sisterhood’, which essentially refers to an ‘alternative form of social network which enables individual women to move away from dependency on the traditional social relations available to them’ based on collective action and political solidarity (Sweetman 2013, 218), as a core element to understand the room of manoeuvre of Ugandan women in the context of in their daily life in Kampala. I have been almost 2 months in Uganda, and many of my assumptions regarding my research have either proven wrong or become far more complex than what I expected. If we take into account the very many ups andĭowns research entails, could it be considered as a form of extreme sport? I am standing in front of the pages of a notebook full of uncomprehensiveĬircles, arrows and brackets. Sometimes soĮxciting, sometimes so confusing. Now, I am experiencing it on my own skin. Hmm…Probably, 99,5% of researchers, but I don’t

Who would have said that researching could be so messy?

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