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Brian Gitta's Matibabu

BRIAN GITTA'S MATIBABU

“She pulled out a big needle and in that moment May screamed like crazy, you should have seen it Grandma,” Ada said. I was in pain too just from seeing it. “ But you weren't even in the room, how could you tell the size of the needle?” May questioned. This shushed Ada and left May with a smug look. “Wait a minute, you mean I have not told you about Uganda’s Brian Gitta and his bloodless Malaria tests!!!” Grandma said. Talk about getting pain free check ups …

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The Father of Ice-cream

THE FATHER OF ICE-CREAM

“So did you find the ice cream so tasty that you decided leaving the empty bowls on the table will attest to how good it was?” Grandma inquired. “ What are you teaching these kids of yours Sasha? I taught you better than that!!! But anyway, I do not blame you at all. There's only one person to blame and that's old uncle Augustus Jackson and his improved methods of making ice cream. He made it finger licking good.” “But grandma isn't that the KFC slogan? And I think …

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Vanessa Nakate's Voice

VANESSA NAKATE'S VOICE

“ You did not just erase a photo. You erased a continent, ” said twenty-six-year-old, Ugandan climate activist, Vanessa Nakate, when the AP press cropped her out of the photo of young climate activists at the Davos forum in January 2020. And she was right, as Africa too, though only responsible for less than 4 percent of the global emissions, is suffering terribly from the impacts of climate change with all the rampant natural disasters such as droughts and storms like …

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Mother Earth's Hummingbird

MOTHER EARTH'S HUMMINGBIRD

You know, we cannot speak about black excellence without mentioning the first African woman to win a Nobel Prize? “I think you should have started these stories of yours with that lady given as very few Africans have won those. She must have exuded greatness indeed.” May said. Of course, she did May, we are talking about Wangari Maathai, a woman born in April 1940, who was shaking tables that most Africans were afraid to even look at.” Grandma replied. …

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The Father of Haiti

THE FATHER OF HAITI

You have probably heard about the cruelty that blacks endured with all the inhumane acts this group of people had to suffer from as slaves. Mind you, this has been understated, that even the stories told about slavery however despicable they may sound, were glossed over. So it is not astonishing that with every chance they got, they tried to escape this hellhole even when it involved losing their lives. Give me liberty or give me death right. Well, I want to tell you about the one time, …

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