She holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature and is currently working on post-doctoral research on literary representations of African women in the colonial era.Kampala/Entebbe, Uganda - Plumes of thick black smoke spiral into the air and the crowds start to run. Some are dressed in sleeveless red university graduation gowns, others carry leafy tree branches to symbolise a past war. They are not all students, but they do all want the same thing: to see President Yoweri Museveni relinquish power to Kizza Besigye, the leader of Uganda's largest opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change.