IBARAH

Multi-passionate storyteller.✨
Weaving stories on the page, stage, screen, audio and more.

[IBARAH @b_ibarah]

I am thrilled to share the official poster for my play, MAKE ROOM, coming to the national theatre this August!
#ugandatheatre #makeroomplay

[The African Theatre Magazine @AfriTheatreMag]

🎭 #ConversationsOnAfricanTheatre

Season 1 Episode 14

Topic: How theatre Performances shape community conversations.

Guests 🎙️: Gisemba Ursula @gisemba_ursula (Actress & Director) and Vic Munala @Ofuyo_ (Playwright) 🇰🇪🇰🇪

🎙 Hosted by @b_ibarah & @martinkabagamb1
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[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Book.

[sarah @notjerk4kirk]

ITS CALLED FOOTBALL BITCH🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂👋👋👋👋

[Pop Base @PopBase]

USA has been eliminated from the World Cup.

They lost 4-1 to Belgium.

[thätniggä♰ @thatnigga_frfr]

why is it spelled “camouflage” and not

[Emo Philips @EmoPhilips]

I love it more

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

Your daughter just got her first period.
Do not tell her she is a woman now.
Tell her what estrogen does.
Tell her what progesterone does.
Tell her her cycle has four phases and each one will feel different.
Give her information. Not a new identity.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

When I say "not all men" I mean this one photographer, specifically.

[IBARAH @b_ibarah]

Here are some tender and uplifting sounds for the week ahead from Make Room.

[The African Theatre Magazine @AfriTheatreMag]

🎭 On the next episode of #ConversationsOnAfricanTheatre, we’ll be joined by Gisemba Ursula (Actress & Director) and Vic Munala @Ofuyo_ (Playwright) from Kenya 🇰🇪

Season 1 Episode 14

Topic: How theatre Performances shape community conversations.
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[IBARAH @b_ibarah]

It is now just 30 days to Make Room, check on that 30k and confirm it is still there🤗

[Candice Frederick @ReelTalker]

What we lost when everything became a screen https://t.co/Fq8AFjfdDG

[Men's Humor @MensHumor]

She speaks for all millennials.

[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

2026 is 50% complete.

[¿ @umlarp]

june’s over? julying

[IBARAH @b_ibarah]

Exactly 30 days until the curtains go up on Make Room. 🎭✨
The countdown is officially on, Kampala!

📅 1st & 2nd August
🕒 3:00 PM
📍 National Theatre
🎟️ Fee: 30K

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Happy 55th birthday to the talented Missy Elliot.

[👑 J³ABz👑 @Jabz_CFC]

Happy birthday to Princess Diana who would've turned 65 today. 🎂🕊️

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

A young woman named MacKenzie Tuttle graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a degree in English. One of her professors was Toni Morrison, who later described her as one of the finest creative writing students she had ever taught.

After graduation, MacKenzie took a job at the New York investment firm D. E. Shaw. There she met a colleague named Jeff Bezos, who had an ambitious idea: selling books on the internet.

She didn’t laugh at the idea.

They married in 1993, and the following year drove across the country to the Seattle area to build what would become Amazon.

In the beginning, there was no global empire.

There was a garage.

MacKenzie handled accounting, wrote business materials, answered customer emails and phone calls, and packed orders alongside Jeff. Like many startups, everyone did whatever needed to be done.

As Amazon grew, MacKenzie stepped away from day-to-day operations to raise their four children while continuing to pursue her own passion for writing.

Her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, won the American Book Award. She later published a second novel and quietly built a respected literary career.

Meanwhile, the story of Amazon became one of the most famous business stories ever told.

Jeff Bezos became one of the world’s most recognizable entrepreneurs.

MacKenzie’s role was rarely part of the public narrative.

She never seemed interested in changing that.

What many people don’t know is that she also knew financial hardship.

Her family filed for bankruptcy while she was still a student, and she has spoken about the kindness of people who helped her through difficult times—acts of generosity she never forgot.

In 2019, after her divorce, MacKenzie Scott received approximately 4% of Amazon’s shares.

Almost immediately, she made a decision that surprised the world.

She signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate the majority of her wealth during her lifetime.

Then she did something even more unusual.

Instead of building a massive public foundation or attaching her name to buildings, she began giving away billions of dollars through large, unrestricted grants.

Universities.

Food banks.

Housing organizations.

Rural communities.

Women’s health initiatives.

Tribal colleges.

Climate organizations.

Small nonprofits that had never imagined receiving gifts of that size.

Many recipients reportedly thought the phone calls were scams.

They weren’t.

Since 2019, MacKenzie Scott has donated tens of billions of dollars to thousands of organizations, making her one of the most significant philanthropists of the modern era.

Despite giving away enormous sums, her fortune has remained substantial because of Amazon’s continued growth.

The woman who once packed Amazon’s first orders is now helping fund opportunities for millions of people she will probably never meet.

She never asked for buildings in her name.

She never demanded headlines.

Sometimes the greatest legacy isn’t the company you help build.

It’s what you choose to do with the success that follows.

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

September 1995:
Hon. Miria Matembe, among other outstanding women, celebrating the new Constitution, whose drafting she had been part of, including a strong Bill of Rights in Chapter 4.
Now, at 73 years, she has to helplessly plead like a child in tears before a young magistrate, for things as basic as respecting her right to health and fair hearing! Spending the night in jail with her raw disregarded pain, I can’t imagine what is running through her mind as she flashes back!