Marua Shade

Dragging the finishing of Marua* Discrete Performance among Re-Displaced Former Lord’s Resistance Female Returnees in Gulu Cityscape

The paper deploys the technique of marua (a local brew made of fermented millet flour and yeast) shades as specific corners in the hinterland of Gulu cityscape. It shows how these corners are constructed by the former Lord‟s Resistance female returnees to sell marua while taking an intricate decision to flirt in a gendered way with the males, without necessarily engaging in sex. This it argues is to negotiate living...