{UAH} John Patrick Amma Mbabazi : Butobere, 1966

By JPAM

I have always believed in surmounting obstacles. My father bought me my first pair of shoes when I was admitted to the prestigious Kigezi College Butobere, Kabale in 1966. At the age of seventeen, I had recently graduated from Kigezi High School Junior (J1-J2) another refined institution where favour was reserved for pupils of ecclesiastical background.

Conversely, the children whose families came from or lived in, the villages of Ruhita and Bugongi, were often treated with suspicion and scorn. This was entirely because the locals had refused to give up indigenous practices such as brewing their own alcohol.

"Nothing good has ever come out of Ruhita except sweet potatoes!" the headmaster Mr Buregyeya had once exclaimed while punishing my six Ruhita friends and I. To our headmasters surprise out of the 60 students who undertook the Junior 2 exam, only 10 advanced to Butobere and of those were the seven Ruhita boys, myself inclusive.

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