{UAH} KANYE "WASTE" VISITS UGANDA (Photo)

Dear Editor,

As we all know, controversial Donald Trump supporter, Slave Trade
denier and black American music artist Kanye West is visiting Uganda,
and this is cause for great celebration here. Especially for his
support to Uganda's tourism industry which definitely needs a boost
given the disturbing events coming from Ugandan politics lately in
world news. So having our local leaders (Mr. Yoweri Museveni and his
family as seen in the pictures here) rush to take photo's with Kanye
West is possibly testimony of the huge meaning (political relief) he
brings to the sad, depressing and bloody local politics today. Is it
abject star struckness or someone frantically trying to get away from
his own disturbing political acts?
"Lets act as if all is well and I'm not torturing, persecuting or
killing my own people in the 2016 bloodbath of the Kasese Massacre",
one seems to be saying.
I doubt if the plight of Ugandans and the political situation
(clinging to power) was discussed in the meeting at State House,
Entebbe.
Usually the press is rife with many foreign personalities visiting
Africa and using the opportunity to do some community activity with
children, women, or the disadvantaged of the country they visit.
Basically doing something more meaningful than just giving the local
leader a pair of white shoes as Kanye has done today, and then taking
off unperturbed by the silence of poverty on the local children's
faces.
What I also find slightly interesting is that nobody, especially our
local purported PanAfricanists, stopped smiling for the camera's for
just one second, and seized this opportunity to teach the visiting
descendant of the Black Holocaust that Slave Trade was not a choice as
Kanye West recently implied to the international media. Putting aside
our regional competition in attracting tourism, I would have taken the
musician for a quick detour to Mombasa market and Fort Jesus port in
neighboring Kenya, (just an hour away by passenger jet) where East
African slaves, including those from Uganda, were traded from the
slave catchers to the international slave traders, and shackled at the
neck, wrists and ankles before being packed worse than sardines and
shipped off naked to the Middle East, Asia and the America's. That
will now probably have to wait for next time. But after seeing for
himself the reality of what happened to his own real ancestors at
point of departure, I would thereby have helped Mr. Kanye West and
others who think like him understand what mindset these Africans were
in at this stage, and I would have maybe helped him understand that
slavery was a heinous act of systematic, premeditated, large scale
exploitation, dehumanization and demonization of black people. An
event whose disturbing ill effects will continue for centuries to
come, particularly on how black people are perceived and continued to
be abused and discriminated against, sometimes fatally, around the
world simply because of the black color of their skin. Slavery was
indeed a great tragedy that forcefully separated a people from the
very continent that has welcomed him back with overwhelming warmth and
open arms as he visits Uganda today.

--
Hussein Juruga Lumumba Amin
Kampala, Uganda

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