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Day #18: My Culture of Eating Fish

Posted on June 18, 2019June 20, 2019 by Ernest Tuape

I’m Jonam. We are a small tribe along the banks of river Nile in North Western Uganda. And we love our fish the way women love their make-up. If fish was marriage material, we would marry it and live with it for eternity. Fish is like our middle name. It’s stuck with us. It’s on…

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Day #17: Tour the Pearl

Posted on June 17, 2019June 20, 2019 by Ernest Tuape

Down the toes of Uganda, at the south-western part of the country lives a community of hunters, gatherers and honey harvesters. This is a community of warriors, people who, if you mess with them, can scare the life out of your skin by the mere look on their faces. They are forest people, unscathed by…

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Day #16: Cerebral Palsy? What’s that?

Posted on June 16, 2019June 20, 2019 by Ernest Tuape

One: My brother and I walk up the steps that lead to the entrance of our church. We get in and sit on a pew that has two people. When they see him and notice he’s not like any of them, they leave the seat and move somewhere else. No one else sits next to…

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Day #15: Address to AU Leaders

Posted on June 15, 2019June 20, 2019 by Ernest Tuape

I was walking along the middle path on the compound of the KCB Leadership Centre in Nairobi when I asked Bryce a question. “What’s the key lesson you’ve learnt from Lagos?” Bryce is a Cameroonian working in Lagos. “Lagos has taught me that life is a continuous struggle for survival,” he said. And I looked…

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Day #14: These Five People

Posted on June 14, 2019June 20, 2019 by Ernest Tuape

Apart from my immediate family, here are five people who inspire me. Teacher Cathy I’m 10 years old and in the final exam of my primary five, I score 09% in mathematics. I’m feeling low, so embarrassed. I’m feeling beaten by that subject. It’s like a monster that devours me every time. My mind registers…

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Day #13: Blogging in Africa

Posted on June 13, 2019June 16, 2019 by Ernest Tuape

The best way to keep a conversation going with a new person is by talking about the weather. It works perfectly. In Africa, we don’t follow the weather forecast that much, do we? If you are an African who pays attention to the weather forecast, raise your hand [in the comments section.] If you’re one…

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Day #12: The Africa You Never Read About

Posted on June 12, 2019June 16, 2019 by Ernest Tuape

You won’t find anything grand or revealing on my blog post today. Please, don’t shut the door in my face yet. Hear me out. Okay? Ok, my mind is off the pace. I feel numb. Maybe it’s got to do with how fickle life is. Or it’s because I’m nervous. I won’t tell you why…

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Day #11: A Letter from Home

Posted on June 11, 2019June 16, 2019 by Ernest Tuape

Dad, I saw a picture of you posing with a group of friends in front of the main gate of Makerere University. It definitely was taken in the 80’s, mid 80’s I think. Behind you stood the entrance to the best university in the land. How proud you must’ve made your parents! I was told…

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Day #10: The Internet in Africa

Posted on June 10, 2019June 12, 2019 by Ernest Tuape

I swear. I had no clue what to write today. I thought about today’s topic for most of yesterday. I rolled up my sleeves and thought of the best possible way of approaching this. My brain recorded a blank. I wanted to ask Google. My heart said no. So I slept off with no idea…

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Day #9: The Class

Posted on June 9, 2019June 12, 2019 by Ernest Tuape

An address to adolescents about the internet and blogging. Imagine this. The holidays are almost done and the next school term is one week away. You wish you had more weeks to stay home. You are a boarding student. You pick a notebook and a pen whose ink has sunk into its tip. You write…

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