{UAH} Facebook Friend.

Gwokto,

I have been communicating with a Facebook friend for over 18 months now. She is mixed race, and lives in a small town in the north of the UK. From her keen interest on Ugandan issues, I somehow suspected she was Ugandan or had Ugandan connections. Eventually, she started sending me private messages, mainly on Ugandan politics and black UK politics. Last week, she eventually picked up the courage to ask me where in Uganda I come from, and when I told her, she then revealed her own identity.

She says she has an Acholi grandmother from Gulu, grandfather from Kiryandongo, mother is half mugisu- half muganda and father is white, and she grew up in Kenya.

I found it truly astonishing. But today, she sent me a message saying she is coming to London on Saturday to watch the famous play-musical by Sheilla Atim which is running at the National Theatre, and asked if I would like to join her.

I am at a loss really. I have never developed a Facebook relationship to a personal level, apart from with a few Ugandans who would not really be strangers as such as many would have got to know about me through my own friends or relatives. This is going to be a new experience.

Have you ever met any Facebook friend at a personal level? It seems strange.

Bobby.

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