‘Born This Way’: Media and Youth Identities in Uganda’s Kuchu Community

Beyond the bustle of Kampala’s chaotic streets lie the quiet compounds of the city’s main industry: the NGOs. Secreted behind barbed gates and broken-glass-encrusted walls, the ‘development industry’ churns away, producing reports and staging workshops, cashing its cheques from philanthropists, foundations and Western governments, and building its own empire of technocrats (aka ‘civil society’) within the cosmopolitan bubble of Uganda’s capital city.