Letter from Uganda: Must One Belong to a Political Party to Get a Job?
I got an email recently from Tumusiime Deo, a Ugandan journalist and human rights activist. Deo mentioned that while interviewing for a job, background searches, professional qualifications and references weren’t enough– employers wanted to know political party affiliation as well. At one organization it was demanded that he join his boss’s party. In Deo’s experience,…