WHAT IS THE GREATEST NEED FOR LADIES

About a year ago, I met a Ugandan girl in south Sudan where both of us were working. She is 34 years old, while I am 26. When we started dating, I thought it would be a casual relationship and we would part ways when each of us found partners we wanted to marry.

She became pregnant shortly after that and we agreed to stay together for the sake of the baby. However, from the day we started living together, I have never had peace. Every night she returned home, she would quarrel endlessly.

It was too heavy for me to bear, until I told her that I want to end the relationship. But she refused to leave my home until she went returned to Uganda to deliver.

Fortunately, she delivered well a baby boy and I sent her money to clear the hospital bills and to cater for other necessities. When the baby was five months old, I travelled to Uganda and asked her to bring him so that I could spend time with him. She turned down my request, saying she was living far a way from Kampala and it would be difficult for her to travel with the baby.

I offered to send her transport fare, but she turned down again. I asked her if the baby was mine and she said yes. I went back to south Sudan without seeing my baby. Two days after I had left Uganda, she made the confusion to reach its maximum by calling me after reaching to Sudan to send her transport far I had offered.

MUSIC IS A GOOD CAREER

In comparison with a thousands of musicians, my 15 years of experience in the music industry look like a puny little breath of time. Yet during this so short span, I have witnessed a number of challenges, small and great.

With my various expedition companions, I have plunged into the depths of prehistory.  Born in Uganda 1981, in kamuli district with a loving compassion, I have juggled music and with a tremendous amount of patience, I have released hit songs, probed all the most promising ones, right from 2004 when I rose to fame by winning the pearl of music award as the best R&B artist up to date.

The most dramatic and unforgettable one was when I won 4 awards in just a period of one year(2005), as the best R&B artist, female artist, song of the year(mama mbire) and the best R&B single(Nabikowa song). However, I picked interest in music when I was watching the magnificent fight that handsome proud men put up for the sake of winning money. Millions of people gathered to watch the fight.

In strange alliance with this simplicity way of becoming a celebrity, is what inspired me to make a career in music.  As I narrate earlier through different Medias, there are so many things I have depicted from music, despite of the challenges; God has been on my side all through my music journey. And now working as the judge in the tusker project fame which is currently running on season 6. This mainly helps young people to develop their talents especially in music.

“Music to so many people’s understanding, looks like a fun, but if you endure in it and do it with a lot of passion, you will not only save the souls of the broken hearten people, but music will yield you high benefits like me”.

JESUS IS THE WORLD’S ONLY HOPE

Take the world but give me Jesus, all its joy are but a name, but his love abides ever through eternal years the same. I clearly remember the day and time when the news about fire burn at Nakasero market reached me.

It was during the early hours of mourning when I was preparing my children for school, and at the same time preparing for work. Thousands of kilometers separated me from the market where I was working as the business lady in self employment.

When my husband died in 2003, I used the condolences to start up a small business at Nakasero market majorly dealing in second hand clothes. After 2 years, the business enchased to first class and my 3 children without a father could survivor on that business.

When that bad incident happened, all our property was destroyed in fire. It was unfortunate that my young daughter was about to sit for her A’ level exams, yet my oldest daughter was in third year at the university. I ran up and down to different offices to help my children sit for their final exams, but my labour

was in vein. Until when I cried to God and my daughter was permitted to sit for her final U.A.C.E exams.

The one at the university was denied exams and registered for a dead year. God was faithful and he did not just pass the exams, but he instead excelled. He is now working with Crane bank in the accounting and banking department. What I should say is that everything that we lost has been compensated by what I call the grace of God and labor of our hands.

“Life knows how to treat people until the tears start coming out of the ears instead of the eyes like we were, but I want to assure you that in whatever situation, make it know to Jesus through prayer because he is the world’s only hope”. John 14:6

NO ONE CAN EXIST WITHOUT A PARTNER

As you know, we started our second war of resistance on February 6, 1981 two days after Janet’s miraculous except. God made this family thrive in the case of the absentee father.

However the little time, I would be available, I would spend it with the children, though it was not much in quantity, but it was quite high in quality. Indeed on march 29, 1985 when coming from the bush, having left on March 12, I rang the doorbell of my family’s flat in Sweden where my family had been living since 1983, after living Kenya because the obote government was being embarrassed by my wife and children staying in Nairobi.

Natasha my daughter is the one who answered it. She looked at me but went back into the house telling the rest that there was an African at the door. Natasha had not believed the black man because I was darker than she remembered. No wander she was only 4 years old when we had last separated.

I then followed Natasha into the apartment where I found my wife “Janet” and Alice who recognized me and started shouting and crying. However, on account of the quality time I gave them, very soon Natasha my daughter could not be persuaded from bringing home her Yugoslav friend to boast that she also had a father.

Hence the miraculous re-linking of Janet and myself during December 1972, in Nairobi was God’s work that he used to give a family to a political, revolutionary priest. What a great complementation and supplementation my wife Janet did!!  Of course after 1986, I was always there for the children and compensated he lost time.  

“A lot to tell about my life, but I always say that four things are most crucial in a person’s life: The fear of God first and foremost; Peace in the country; Having a family; and Creating wealth for the family”.

LOVE WITHOUT LIMITS

As you heard people say love your neighbors and hate your enemies. But I tell you, up to this age of 21 I have loved enemies and prayed for anyone who mistreats me.    In 2002, our neighbors who were not happy with us at all from the beginning destroyed 4 acres of maize for no good reason.

Astonishingly, they were proud of it to the extent of saying that is just the beginning. It was a hard time for our plans towards fighting justice to succeed since he was the head justice in our district. I knelt down and shouted through the streets, but God was not there. Matters were made worse when a month after that bad incident, my sister died un abruptly.

It was as if that was not enough, even my beloved parents in that very year passed away in a terrible accident when they were paying a visit to my school on the visitation day. I made a deafening cry ripped through the coffin during the burial, but God did not answer.

I found it hard to concentrate at school since I also developed heart attack problem and it even became hard to grow in my relationship with God. I then hard a still, small voice whispering to me that God loves me. From there and then, my soul was quiet, my future was bright and I just wish my parents were there to see what their son had become.

Hope for the future is sometimes hard to come by as there are some human beings doing whatever they can to make you a failure in life or even kill. But no matter what or where you are, God has promised this; “I will bless you with a future of success, not of suffering (Jeremiah 29:11), so dear friends, hold onto this hope that God offers”.