A section of Ugandans on the internet have reacted with excitement to the idea of men and women stepping out in the public as a group with no clothes at all, and what else? Go on to jump onto a bike and ride it across the city- normally, like it’s no one else’s business.
Well, this actually just happened on Sunday when hundreds of naked cyclists took on the streets in a “protestival” ride across the city on Sunday. More than 1000 nude cyclists gathered up for this year’s Brighton Naked Bike Ride in the UK. The event happens every June.
Ugandans have found it so unreal, and others disgusting because it’s generally considered immoral and an abomination in an African setting for a grown up to expose their nakedness to anyone else other than their spouse or maybe doctor.
Well, even in the ‘exposed’ western world, such extreme nudity is condemned, but has for only this one time been tolerated because the participants are non-violent in their ‘Adam’s suits’ as they seek to bring attention to a noble cause. “It was by far a matter of national importance to go naked on a bike on the road.”
Accordingly, the annual event aims to empower participants in a celebration of car-free, human-powered travel, while also protesting against climate change and highlighting the vulnerability of cyclists and their strength and safety in numbers.
The method must’ve been effective. No wonder some kind men so many miles away in Uganda now want to voluntarily join this struggle- the ‘protestival’. Why not? If it’s such a noble cause and why would one not want to directly be a part of the change they wish to see?
