WHY EVERYONE LOVES MIRIA MATEMBE:
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See, Dr. Miria Matembe reminds almost everyone of their mother; the typical African Mother. Unpredictable, Fearless, Risky, Hilarious, in between being Mean and being Angelic.
-The kind of mother you ask after eating, “Mummy where should I put the plate,?” And she says, “Put it on my head.”
-The kind of mother who hears/sees you break a glass plate and gives you another ten plates saying, “Break these ones too, we no longer need them.”
-The kind of mother who attempts to slap your face and when you protect your face with your hands, she calls her brothers (your uncles) and says, “If you fine me dead just know your nephew finished me; isn’t he the one who now has beards and a deep voice?”
-That mother who would beat you blue black but should any teacher beat you at school, the headmaster, teacher on duty, bursar and Askari would have to leave the country until she stops coming to school to ask, “Who wanted to kill my child.”
-The kind of mother who would see you accept a piece of meat from the visitor and give you that look with a pointed mouth-the look that would make you go to wash plates, mop the toilets and slash the compound at night without being told to.
-A disciplinarian with unmatched motherly love, a pillar in her family, the one who keeps the home together and the one who praises God like they have ever met face to face.
That’s why we love Miria Matembe. We see our mothers in her.
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