Activist Awards are accolades given to individuals who have made significant contributions to advocacy. These awards often serve to spotlight important causes and celebrate the achievements of those leading the fight for change.

Allan Okello is an outstanding Ugandan player who migrated to the UK for work and got an opportunity to play in one of England’s biggest teams, Arsenal. Over time he has gained citizenship in the UK. It is World Cup season currently. Okello has the opportunity to choose between playing for UK or his home country, Uganda. 

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed Six Triple Eight, was the only predominantly Black Women's Army Corps (WAC) unit to serve overseas during World War II. Comprising 855 women, they were tasked with a monumental mission: clearing a multi-year backlog of millions of undelivered letters and packages for American servicemen stationed in Europe. Facing rampant racism, sexism, and challenging working conditions in England and France, the unit developed an innovative system to process over 17 million pieces of mail, completing their mission in three months half the expected time.

Fideism is the belief that faith is more important than reason in understanding religious truths. It holds that religious beliefs do not need logical proof and that relying on reason can weaken true faith.

You are Rahim, a 25-year-old whose partner, Cynthia, recently died in a tragic accident. You have been offered the Resurrection Protocol.

An AI can scrape all of Cynthia's texts, emails, videos, and voice recordings to create a Reanology. The Reanology looks like her, sounds like her, and predicts exactly what she would say or do in any situation with 99.9% accuracy. However, Reanology is not conscious; it is merely a very advanced chatbot simulation.

As automation and AI replace human roles, a robot tax is a fiscal policy that levies a tax on companies based on an assessment of the value of jobs automated away (e.g., if a robot does the work of 10 employees with a total salary of $500,000, the tax would be a percentage of that figure). The revenue would be exclusively used to fund a universal retraining program, providing free education and skills development for workers displaced by technological change.

In many cities, valuable land is held as vacant lots or properties by speculators waiting for its value to increase, which contributes to urban blight and constrains housing supply. The local council government will have the power to compulsorily purchase (at a rate based on its current use, not its potential value) any residentially zoned land that has been left vacant or underutilized for a set period (e.g., 5 years). The land would then be auctioned to developers with a strict condition to build housing within a defined timeframe.

You are a debater from a remote, underfunded up-country school. You have defied immense odds—financial hardship, lack of coaching, and systemic barriers—to reach the National Schools Debating Championships (NSDC) Final.

You have a choice. You can deliver a brilliant, conventional speech on the given motion, potentially winning the national title. Or, you can use your platform to break the fourth wall and discard the set topic. You can instead discuss the very real, systemic barriers that almost prevented you and countless others from being on this stage at all. This is a high-risk strategy that may cost you the championship on technical grounds, but it speaks to a greater truth about the activity.

The Lwera wetland on Masaka Road continues to sink. Despite the 2026 Manifesto promise to "Restore Wetlands," a prominent Chinese investor (Yihe Rice) has offered to build a modern drainage city in Lwera (like Dubai) if granted full ownership of the land. The alternative is evicting the investor and facing a rice shortage/price hike