How to be ethical

    Since the beginning of the year I’ve been encountering issues of ethics. We talk a lot in Uganda about corruption and how it stops us from developing at a reasonable rate. But my question is what happened to the African Ethic so often spoken about by historians? When I first started reading African …

Resilience

  So now we begin again, I’m not sorry to see the back of 2014, its been a trying year for many not just me. Resilience is the ability to overcome challenges, to fall, down but get back up again, to keep moving and learning from our mistakes. I’ve touched and been touched by countless …

Chaos

So yesterday I was at home, you may as well say I was idle. I had nothing to do. I didn’t feel like speaking or interacting so I stayed in my room, read, watched DVD’s and basically spaced out. But in that space I realised how undisciplined my mind is, even after many years of …

Escape

Drowning in the depth of my mental Its hard to breathe deeply I struggle to find my peace of mind. Its shrouded in anxiety. I want to die then I wouldn’t have to straddle the middle, masquerading as a strong African woman. How will I ever find the balance I feel at times When surrounded …

At Ease in Musicality

I want to act from my strongest self. This is a concept a friend of mine Sheron Wray introduced to me this week. It means I have safety within, my actions are congruent with my higher values, I’m present rather than living in regret about the past, or anticipation of the future. I focus on …

Loosing my Soulskin

My senga was lost to me in middle passage journey’s Motherhood and marriage defined who I was meant to be. The Wild in me conformed to societal ideals of femininity. My mammaries grew full, for giving but never receiving, learning to be seen but not heard like the children produced in close procession. The milk …

The Layer Beneath

                       I’ve had a very hectic but inspiring week. I travelled to Lira for a Peace Camp where I facilitated and trained young people from all over Uganda and the US. Then leaving Lira by coach back to Entebbe for the ‘Layer Beneath’ Camp training …

Healing nature

To be honest I’m looking forward to the closing of the year 2014. Its been a real challenging year on a number of fronts personally and globally, ‘there’s so much trouble in the world’ as spoken about by the honourable Bob Marley. Sometimes I wonder if humanity will ever evolve beyond our ego’s and start …

Bagamoyo

Bagamoyo return my heart to me Lay it down so I can see I am free now, I have returned To the promised land, To find peace of mind. My ancestors were robbed Enslaved in chains For profit and gain. Bagamoyo return my heart to me In the full moon light I see the sea. …