Uganda: Put Lake Bunyonyi On Your Bucket List

16 January 2018

In many traditional African cultures, it was abominable for an unmarried girl to get pregnant. Among the Baganda, that girl would be sent away to live with a distant relative.

But among the Bakiga in southwestern Uganda, it was worse; unmarried pregnant girls were abandoned on a tiny island in Lake Bunyonyi and left to die. Akampene or Punishment Island is about five metres wide and eight metres long, but the biggest part of it is floating vegetation.

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