Yesss! I'm re-united with my "Heritage"

I had taken a sabbatical of about 4 years not posting to this my family blog. Blogger even seems to have undergone mega changes itself, to the extent that my blog almost got lost. At some point I tried to load the address which then was (https://afrinational.blogspot.com) and was told the blog doesn't exist anymore, and that changes had been made to blogger that required me to update the blog, which I didn't do, but thankfully they seem to have carried it over to a new address (https://afrinational.blogspot.ug/) where I finally found it, after undergoing blog recovery process.

There is too much history here to lose. I kept trying to peek once in a while but had no time to read or update. But I knew I had to find it and reactivate it somehow. So now I seem to have full control of it once again.

How did I keep away this long? Life happened.

I had to compartmentalize my life a bit. Blogging seemed to me like a luxury the past few years. Its not like I was a student anymore, living between lecture rooms and halls of residence. There is a thing called "Work" in the real world - real world here means "life after school". So I had to work, that's my excuse.

Among the key things that have happened in the last couple of years (which would otherwise be full stories on this blog), I can recall the following - noteworthy

• My journey to find out all about my mother and the family she came from
• Spending a Christmas week at my dad's in Kitegwa with family, after a very long time
• My Sister (Grace Katushabe's) graduation 
• My young brother (Abel Matsiko's) journey to get married
• My younger brother (Ronald Mugyenyi's) wedding
• Conversations with Aunt Joyce
• Conversations with Aunt Kate
• How I spent a night in jail for taking pictures, an altercation with the guards of a Chief Justice, one John Buteera
• My road trips to Western districts in Uganda
• A lot of my university friends getting married - many a wedding tales
• Entering girlfriend territory
• When my mother visited me at the office
• Progress on my entrepreneurial journey

Okuhingira big-fat in December

On Fri 20th Dec 2013, we were at Nkoma in Sembabule district, at the home of Mr. Martin Namanya, the husband to my aunt Jane Kabusiiri. It was the give-away ceremony (Okuhingira) for cousin Winnie Abaho.


This was the second give-away ceremony in the family,  this year the first was for my ucnle's daughter (Nyabukazi Agather) earlier in the year.

It was good to once again be in Bwera, my ancestral home land. I travelled with my technically "grand pa" Aaron Mutatiina, a UPDF soldier, and my technically "aunt" Lorna Nabimanya.


Winnie Abaho is now officially married to a young man, also a UPDF soldier from Nkore. It was a grand ceremony well attended by family, relatives, friends - including leading politicians from the area - Minister Sam Kuteesa and MP. Anifah Kawooya.

There was a young lady, among those who entertained in the traditional Ankore culture, who did an emotinal song for the bride 'Okizinira', that made my aunties I was sitting next to cry - especially Nyamugyenyi I saw her look down and wipe a tear.

We had to travel back same day after the ceremony to attend to some business in Kampala, so we left immediately after the Kuhingira. Personally I had cancelled  a couple of work meetings, and had a test at graduate school next day. We did not get a chance to accompany the bride to the groom's home (Okushagarira), but many of my brothers, cousins and friends went.


Congrats to Winnie Abaho, aka "Big Fat"