Country:Uganda

Director:George Sengendo

Summary:

Nabadda is adopted by her paternal aunt. Her uncle breaches the trust, plunders the estate and sells off all the cows leaving the orphan with nothing. Aunt Nanteza cons a wealthy customer in covering the costs with the promise of eventual marriage while Nabadda falls in love with a young doctor. Eventually Nabadda will marry one of the men and the other will go mad.

Country:Uganda

Director:George Sengendo

Program:Eastern Parallels

Summary:

Two teenage girls encounter problems of growing up. As might seem familiar from Sengendo’s teaching dramas, the youngsters seek parental guidance but it is in vain, since the parents claim to be busy. When the girls get pregnant through peer pressure, one resorts to a crude abortion which results in her death while the other keeps the pregnancy but the delivery results in injuries to herself and her baby soon dies leaving her disconsolate.

Country:Uganda

Director:George Sengendo

Program:Eastern Parallels

Summary:

George Sengendo’s first television drama is one of the first narrative works of a feature length to be made in the country. Talking to children about issues of sexuality is still a taboo among typical Ugandan families. The young Nabakaabya, who is a teenager at a boarding school, is a victim of this silence. Her mother foresees the dangers of adolesence for her daughter but she is too timid to broach the subject. She finally seeks the guidance of a traditional healer who prescribes a solution but in the meantime Nabakaabya has become pregnant.