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Domestic Violence discussed on FM Radio Talk Show

The current rate of domestic violence in our community, has at long last hit ‘Talk Back’, a prime radio talk show on a prime FM radio station called Radio One. Radio One, is an FM radio station that largely targets people in Kampala. ‘Talk Back ’, is broadcast every morning from around 8.15 to 8.45 am. Most of the topics discussed on ‘Talk Back’, are a continuation of what transpired on the previous evening’s radio talk show called ‘Spectrum’.

Both Spectrum and Talk Back capture the elite in Kampala. One notes this when listening to the callers into the radio talk show. Notable about the two radio talk shows is the lack of women participants into the radio talk shows. It is mainly men who call to offer their opinions regarding the theme being discussed.

The theme to be discussed on Talk Back is usually highlighted before the actual time of the radio talk show. Consequently, some callers prepare to call into the programme if it falls within their area of interest. Preparation for the radio talk show involves buying air time for the mobile phone and getting a pen and paper to note down the numbers for callers to use. Sometimes, calling into a radio talk show only requires that your mobile phone has enough battery power. This happens during some toll free call-ins, and the moderators of the talk shows indicate this well before the radio talk show.

Domestic violence was the theme of the Talk Back Radio talk show today (17th December 2008). Was this a result of the current campaign by Raising Voices, an organization that aims at preventing domestic violence? Was it a result of the ongoing media coverage of domestic violence? Hadly a day goes by without a newspaper reporting a gruesome act of domestic violence. During the same week of 15th December 2008, we were told that an MP’s wife was gunned down by unknown assailants, a 37 year old man hit his lawfully wedded wife to death with a beer bottle due to an SMS message he believed was from a lover, one father murdered both his three year old twins. And the stories go on and on. Notable about today’s talk show was the absence of an informed voice talking about domestic violence. Every body was expressing an opinion. They pointed fingers against women organizations who they said spend all their money enjoying themselves in workshops instead of targeting fellow women in rural areas who are suffering from domestic violence. They said the Ministry of Integrity and the Church have to address the moral decadence in our community, which is leading to domestic violence. They said it is mainly women in central Uganda who are promiscuous and tend to lead their men into domestic violence. That the women in central Uganda are proud to be referred to as widows. And so on and on. So, where were the women in all this????

Nora Naiboka Odoi 0772457615

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