Tag: Socialisation
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Lessons from the Opiio family on how to nurture teens during school holidays
Last week, I got to spend some quality time with some of my favourite people, the family of my brother Simon Opiio, son of my late papa Malinga, brother to my late father. As we lazed around after lunch, at their home in Komolo Village in Pallisa, his daughter, my niece, Tereza, named after her […]
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What will happen when our elders pass on, has anyone documented their knowledge?
Today is the 37th National Resistance Movement (NRM)/National Resistance Army (NRA) Day. Both the Vice President of Uganda and the Speaker of Parliament are Ateso. Who can help us to ensure that both these powerful ladies and the NRM Administration as a whole get to read Samuel’s thoughts here below? “I once thought to myself, […]
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Behind a successful woman is a man, her father
Its been two years and a month since my late papa rested. It is amazing, though, how I intensely feel his presence and protection, as I go about the business of living. I randomly remember things that he told me and or those that others said he told them about his aspirations for me. It […]
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Blessed to know my roots and to be culturally rooted
Papa Odolot is the youngest of my late father’s brothers and he is one of the two of my late grandfather’s sons who are still alive. He is a trained teacher who taught in Kitagobwa, among other schools, in those days when teachers were to be respected or was it feared … Those who know […]
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We All Have That One Aunt
As a little girl, in the early 1970s, my parents had a temporary separation. I was probably two or three years old at the time. I stayed with my dad. My mum moved out and was busy with her job as an Air Hostess with East African Airways. Her working, was possibly one of the […]
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