Mother Uganda, rarely gets beyond ‘Congratulations X’ everytime sports people in this country excel beyond borders and/or trade the flag.
In the Pearl of Africa it’s a mere Facebook post, a WhatsApp status or a casual ‘wow’ from the powers that be, when a Ugandan lifts the ‘Black Yellow Red’ sky-high.
Dorcus Inzikuru
In this our nation, when a Dorcus Inzikuru or the Uganda Cranes triumphs after unbearable efforts, all they get is a whole basket of empty promises and blatant lies.
The circus; the series and the routine keep on repeating to the next child and the other one, till one vanishes, for another to get a similar or worse treat.
Uganda Cranes players warmup at Namboole stadium
When the conversations of better funding, improved facilities, thorough preparations get into the mix, Uganda coils back into the hiding; what a mother!
Our mother will treat the She Cranes to a sumptuous luncheon and a presidential shake, only for the national Netball team to miss the next international event, such a terrible mother!
As mother celebrates one child, for clout; she will ignore Boxing and Basketball, her other children, because the noise is quite not the same; what a joke of a mother!
When you’re worthy murals or billboards or rather a road named after your successes, mother will instead wage a war on you, and for her, that’s ‘perfect celebration’.
Regardless how many times one trades the flag, no matter how stoutly you write your name among the world’s greats, back home, mother will humble you.
A ‘Joshua Cheptegei Express Highway‘ rings murder and blood in mother’s adulterous ears, yet she won’t offer one other option to celebrate one of the world’s all-time greats.
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Mother will gladly watch a national treasure; a Fimbo Mukasa, a Jamil Kyambadde sink deep in ruins and smile on; a few brown envelopes here and there for mockery and camera; what a mother!
Uganda feels shame having a Lawrence Mulindwa Lane, a Dennis Onyango Way, a Moses Muhangi Close, a Steven Kiprotich Path, but will gladly have a certain ‘Byandaala‘ somewhere: what a mother!
Uganda mocks rather than celebrate; they play around feelings than treat them; good with the keyboard than one single action; My shameless mother.
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