My campus roommate used to tell me, ‘Bruce hata mtu wa mkokoteni ako na side chiq na anaishi kwa single room with four children and a pregnant wife. Salary ya daktari haiwezi kulwa na mrembo mmoja…’
Awuoro son of Omabei
In 2021, in the middle of Covid-19 lockdown, alone on duty, this nurse, Sylvia Nyangoma single handedly helped to deliver mothers of 126 babies, attended to 17 referral cases, and registered zero deaths at Bugoigo health centre II in Buliisa district.
#Unsungheroes
I have always asked people who accuse Coasterians of being lazy: "you want these people to wake up at 6 am, to go where exactly?"
Industrial complex? Dead. Corporate? Nonexistent. Temperature? Hell Celsius. Soil? Acidity. Infrastructure? a rumor.
Wake up at 5 am to go where?
Watu, hii stori ya “cash crops” must stop with us.
The colonial-era policy was to make Afrikan agriculture serve European industry.
Sugarcane, coffee, tea, etc are crops we cannot eat, must sell to live. 1–3 years to mature, and the crops have only one buyer route: the colonial marketing board.
Dismantle the structure!