About Me—Sarah Kyomugisha.

Am telling you now, I do not know. I don’t! All I know is am here just as I am.

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There’s one thing I am sure you have already noticed, though, my second name, “KYOMUGISHA,” is very hard to pronounce unless you are from my tribe. I have met people from the central, eastern, and northern parts of the country, and they have trouble pronouncing it. What I am trying to tell you upfront is in case you have a hard time, just call me however you manage. It’s cool.

See, where I come from, in the magnificent Kigezi hills of Kabale, southwestern Uganda. It is a wonderful place with a lake, hills, and stout Bakiga people.

You don’t know this, or you have probably read about it or watched it in some documentary, but my tribe is the one that took young girls who lost their virginity and got pregnant before marriage to a small island on Lake Bunyonyi which is the second deepest crater lake in Africa and third in the world.

The punishment island, locally known as Akapeene, consumed many lives of young girls, some of who would even be victims of rape back in the 1950s. But enough of that because there is a story published about it.

As I was saying, my second name, Kyomugisha, means blessing, but my friend, I tell you what. My life has always been……what’s the…