#kwapa

Pupils in a crowded classroom in Amuru District, Northern Uganda. It’s a quiet day here at the farm save for the birds singing on the trees, and occasional grant of the pigs and bleating from the goats. It’s nearly lunch time here and I have just taken an early break and sat under a mango tree which I planted about ten years ago. I have just heard the bell ring at the nearby Kwapa primary…

Toto with some grand and great grand-children on Christmas day 2019. We will miss her this Christmas. So much has happened since the last time I penned something on this page. We have been through two Covid-19 lock-downs, one Christmas holiday and Easter. The fish that my children and I put in the pond we made during the lock-down of 2020 is ready for eating and we’ve had quite a number already.…

Letter from the village -Gardening

Dressing trees to to render them ever green and also have the kind of look one likes.

There is an ad on CNN for a certain show that ends with these words; “Make, Create, Innovate.” I would like to borrow this slogan to answer as well as I can the questions several visitors to our village often ask about our home – the garden, ponds and other physical structures like the African huts.

In…

REFLECTIONS IN JUBA – Independence South Sudan

The same sun shines up on and warms us all, and the same God created us all in his image that we might shine with acts of righteousness to his glory but we have created war instead, It started with Abel and Cain but Christ came at Christmas to point us back home to God. And it is possible to make a change; it starts with you. I hope for a new day of peace will rise over South Sudan.

Today is…