Tag: Legacy
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We each have our time surely
The life of my papa Omio, brother to my late father, has me convinced in the belief that if it is not your day you will not die. My papa Omio “star nnyoo” as they would say in street talk here in Buganda. As a youthful man he consumed significantly, to the extent that many…
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Keeping the Chief’s Legacy Alive
Good morning papa. Today, 1st February 2021, marks three months since you rested. You are on my mind in a positive light. I am thinking of you and how among your father’s sons you are the one whom your sisters chose to be your father’s heir and to fill his shoes, so to speak. Within…
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Culturally, my first name is Alinga
A week after I was born I was named in an Iteso naming ceremony. I was named after the mother of my father, my grandmother, the matriarch Ajakait Joyce Mary Alinga, may her soul continue to rest in power. But, I was born in the 1960s after Christianity had taken root in Uganda. At the…