Friends
The fact of the matter remains that Uganda is done. And you cannot understand
that statement till when you sit out here and look at the numbers of Ugandans
exiting that country, they are astounding. We can sit in our chairs and
self-comfort on how Uganda is a home, but when you own a house and a wife
leaves it, the children leave it, Goats start to park and go, Sheep park and
go, Cows park and go, the Cats follow suit, grass start to grow around your
house for the animals that were eating it are gone, and the wife with the
children that were cutting it are gone, you start to realize some eminent
changes on your house. Bats start to take over the roof, because the Cat is
gone the Rats take the bed rooms, and spider web starts to be the norm. yes the
house still stands but defining it as a home one starts to ponder a simple
question to whom? All along the 70’s, leaving Uganda was a style, but
established Ugandans had no reason to leave. The 80’s Uganda saw an exit of two
major groups, criminals and perpetuated victims. The 90s the numbers of
Ugandans leaving Uganda started to beat the numbers of those going back. In
2000s, Ugandans leave the country to simply survive. Those are the numbers we
need to be very worried about for they are Ugandans that refused to leave all
along, I know individuals that would swear never to leave that country what
come may, they laughed at those in diaspora, they plead with everyone out here
to send money and build a home in Uganda for you never know you will one of
those days come home. That class of I am a Ugandan and I have no reason to
leave my country are packing and leaving especially through Southern African
countries. I know several parents that take their kids to school so that they
get educated to be able to fit in diaspora. These kids are in Uganda schools
today so that as soon as they are able to communicate in English they can leave
for a secondary country. And a very supporting reason for this is the numbers
of children in lower grades of education.
As that class leaves, Boers from South Africa, Nigerians, Ivory Coast,
Congolese, Rwandese, Chinese, Kenyans, Israelis, Indians, Somalis, and many
other nationalities are massively buying out everything possible on both short
and long term contracts. Everything in Uganda is for sale from huge chunks of
Land, to power supply, to Lakes to you name it. As all this is happening the
governors of Uganda have shifted the politics of the country from being ran
inside Uganda to diaspora cities, The Opposition is holding a meeting in
Europe, Katikiro and Nabagereka are in Europe and North America. There are
reasons why some of us are defined as critical thinkers, we use the above
cocktail to worry about the future of such a country. Can we seriously use such
a cocktail to preach how we have a home and how we are enroute to go home, to
what home really ?
And no I insist it is a God damn open ended question.
Geeez
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika
machafuko"
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ssalongo Ssennoga
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 8:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {UAH} Of politics, people and talk of home.
Mutabani, Omutendeke Edward Kayondo!
Thank you for the complement and welcome back from your own Sabbatical! Did it
have to take my absence to bring you back? You were sorely missed then!
My point exactly is what you so ably illustrate! That choices may be made to
make a home of our present circumstances but the heart, and probably genes
never forget the unmistakable call of home.
I do not call Uganda home either, because it just doesn't quite answer to my
definition and understanding of home. Afrika is more like it for me and all of
us that answer to Colour-Code Black!
By the look of things, those grand-kids of mine you have seeded into the
diaspora will sooner rather than later heed to the call of home in Afrika. I
say this because it's an open secret that the Future if our world passes
through the heart of Afrika. Being Ugandan, Malawian or even Gabonese is fast
going out of fad, the newest Swag is in being Afrikan and having a point on it
to call home.
It's a matter of time before the flood gates open to the Afrika Great Exodus -
AGE to bring our best and worst home. Take heart, it's happening in our
lifetime.
Omuzzukulu Omugole Mundabire
Villager
On Monday, August 25, 2014, 'Dr.Edward Kayondo' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH)
Community <[email protected]> wrote:
Taata Ssalongo,
Thanks for that reminder.
Its sad in a way though that children born in Diaspora especially if they can
get citizenship will never call Uganda home. We try to teach them our
languages, culture and tell them about a country that they wouldn't like to
live in as it is anyways and growing into adults they make their own decisions.
So what is left are those few who left Uganda in adult age, and as years pass
on our children grow up give birth and we eventually turn into baby sitters and
start enjoying our grand children meanwhile every one we knew back home either
expires or we end up not having anything in common.
I guess what I am trying to pass over is that for many this forum is as close
to home as they will ever be and even if they do go back the inconveniences and
lack of what we take for granted in diaspora makes home a vacation spot.
Maama hajati mundabile nyo.
Eddie, M.D
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From: Ssalongo Ssennoga <[email protected]
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Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 6:23 PM
Subject: {UAH} Of politics, people and talk of home.
Habari za siku m(ny)ingi my good friends and family.
I hope I wasn't too long away to be missed and possibly looked for in some
ungazetted safe house for whatever reasons. Being back does not exactly explain
my grand entrance here, more like dropping in to reassure you that the old
ticker still beats for me and my work here is not done yet.
I returned to the usual cacophony of poverty disease and ignorance against a
backdrop of war and petty politics. If you ask me where from, I will not be shy
to share that I headed for the hills in search of answers just as the ancients,
the prophets and oracles of old did.
Am not here to share answers yet but to give you a sneak peek into a world we
have all been programmed to forget while we get entangled the more in the wise
web of deceit, hypocrisy and conspiracy. We have learnt to believe that life is
all about money, medicine and mechanics. We have all the while been conditioned
to forget and abandon the small matter and notion of home.
That's what I am here to remind and impress upon you that whatever freedoms and
liberties you may strike out to achieve and secure for yourself, they never
could get more real than the reality of home.
Some will always pride themselves in being nations of immigrants, others
marauding hordes and more still as wandering herdsmen (pastoralists) or even
Jews, we have all been duped into a system that takes us away from the only
place we can ever be and feel free drawn out into a slavery we hardly recognize.
What and where is home if one may ask? People will always claim to set up home
wherever they may find "opportunity," but the desire to return somewhere
someday never completely dies. That place where your heart and soul feel an
attachment and longing to return is where home is true to the adage that home
is where the heart is!
The importance of home can never be over emphasized as figure and manner of
speech will over emphasize. Birds coming home to roost, cows coming home,
making a home run, getting home to someone in making a point understood are
just bits of the ever present significance of home.
Unlike humans, plants and animals will be at home in one area and not another
while humans keep on the move in an elusive quest for satisfaction and
fulfillment which almost never happens until they can return home. Some of the
vicious wars being fought today are those over a right to return or belong to
what constitutes home.
If peoples can be coded by colour, there will not be any doubts about who
belongs to which and where home would be for them. Four distinctive colour
groupings endure. Black, Yellow, Red and White. It's no coincidence that these
are the national colours of this obscure wannabe nation of Uganda. As to who is
who and belongs where, I wouldn't abuse your intelligence by spelling it out
for you.
Yet that won't stop me from introducing you to the Luganda (read Afrikan
brotherhood) notion of home. We may have all the four mentioned colours
claiming Afrika for home, many will agree that the Blacks have a more valid
claim over her. Here is why in the Shabatka's Ancient Language. Afirika,
Afrique and Afriqiyy originate from a Luganda string of words translating for
At-Ours-Where-Home-Is E-WAFFE-ERI-EKA (EWAFERIKA) Which renders properly to
Afrika in todays manner of speech. The notion of home thus lives on in the name
of Afrika.
This may take a while getting home to many, but home being where the heart is,
a warm heart awaits those that eventually find their way home. There is more to
being Ugandans-at-Heart than meets the eye. Much much more than Black, Yellow,
Red and White. Now you know why!
Villager
With regards from ACE-AGE
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