18 Facts About Sylvia Tamale

Sylvia Rosila Tamale is a Ugandan academic, and human rights activist in Uganda.

Sylvia Tamale was the first woman dean in the law faculty at Makerere University, Uganda.

Sylvia Tamale received her Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Center, Kampala, in 1990, graduating at the top of her class.

Sylvia Tamale has been a visiting professor at the African Gender Institute of the University of Cape Town and a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin.

Sylvia Tamale was the dean of the Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, from 2004 to 2008.

Sylvia Tamale's lecture was entitled Nudity, Protests and the Law, inspired, in part, by the earlier-in-the-year nude protest of Stella Nyanzi at the university.

Sylvia Tamale reported it to students, staff, public, and private partners of Makerere University.

Sylvia Tamale has spoken out in support of the traditional practice of labia stretching, arguing that any comparison to female genital mutilation is invalid.

In 2003, Sylvia Tamale was named the "Worst Woman of the Year" by a conservative bloc in Uganda.

Sylvia Tamale was vilified for weeks within one of Kampala's daily newspapers, New Vision, as responsible for everything from the moral degeneration of the nation to the reason Ugandan teenagers were going to go to hell.

Sylvia Tamale was attacked for suggesting that the term "minorities" should cover lesbian and gay citizens of Uganda in the Equal Opportunities Commission.

Sylvia Tamale is a Working Group Member in the African Feminist Forum.

Sylvia Tamale is an Advisory Board Member for the Open Society Foundations, an organization active in more than 120 countries that provides grants to individuals and groups toward building inclusive and vibrant democracies.

The Sylvia Tamale interview was uploaded to YouTube on August 13,2015, by London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sylvia Tamale speaks about being named the Worst Woman of the Year.

Sylvia Tamale offered advice to any women aspiring to be in a position of power.

That pressure will always be there," Sylvia Tamale said, "You cannot get any rewards without working for it.

Sylvia Tamale is married to Joe Oloka-Onyango a professor of law at Makerere University.