Hello! My name is
Aggrey Bamughamye Bulamu.
I am the author of the historical fiction entitled, Effort for Comfort( Check out on Amazon https://a.co/d/e2MqR7z ). A husband, father, and grandfather. I am a Ugandan-Canadian based in Edmonton, Alberta.
Hello!
My name is Aggrey Bamughamye Bulamu. I am the author of the historical fiction titled above. A husband, father, and grandfather. I am a Ugandan-Canadian based in Edmonton, Alberta.
Before my ’Effort for Comfort’ could be called a jaw-dropping craft, one should reckon that millions of de-humanizing girl child stories happened, are happening, and seem unlikely to stop in the foreseeable future! Governments, International Organizations are no doubt, fighting tooth and nail to eradicate the exploitation, and subjugation of the girl child. A lot though, needs to be done.
When gang raping can still be heard in nuclear powers like India, one wonders which of the two should take priority! When little girls are sold out for the sake of food, in famine or war- torn countries, is there any hope left? In this 21 century, when little girls are sold out by their parents just to fulfil unfair parts of traditions in many African countries. That, and a lot more means women emancipation requires more traction through combined effort, than ever!
How peaceful and lovely the world would be with women at the helm of all super power nations! I don’t remember Angela Merkel thumping her chest, displaying her military might, hungry for war. Instead, she invited her dear friend, Nigerian-born Chimamanda Adiche, famous author and orator, to point out the atrocities that German did to Namibia! That alone was a gesture in the right direction for reconciliation.
Women should be in the top leaderships of this world. New Zealand’s Jacinda Arden’s weapon was love and compassion.
How do we get women into top leaderships? Misogyny, surely, isn’t one of them. Attacking feminism is demoralizing. As a proud grandfather, I want equal opportunities for my granddaughters and grandsons. Yes, I do! Because it all starts earlier, not later!
I, and Elizabeth have been doing this for quite a while. Throughout our forty-plus years as a couple, we’ve been a vehicle for formal and informal education to kids, many of whom have successful stories to tell. Others, not much, though! Words like nuclear family are very unlikely to be heard of in our home. We are a proud extended family, with some of our members hailing all the way from neighboring Kenya!
Monitoring many kids as they grew up, gave me the inspiration to write this book.
‘Effort for Comfort’ is only a tip of the iceberg. It is a story about 15-year-old Namwembe, sold off to 16-year-old Tom Kalume through traditionally arranged marriage. Before, and during the early phase of the marriage, she endures many brutal forms of harassment. Against all the odds, and along with fellow young women, they work together and transform their livelihoods, their community, and indeed their nation. It is all beyond everyone’s expectations.
The story’s main setting is Bwembe, a very rural area south of Busoga sub-region, in eastern Uganda, where the reader is able to explore people’s daily life, food, and culture. Be prepared to grit your teeth, be enlightened, empathize, laugh out loud, and wipe your tears either w
Elizabeth, then in our passion fruit farm; Gifting our family a he-goat in Uganda; I assisted Reverend Father Anastasias Isabirye in construction of a Church boat; Elizabeth and I with our late Archbishop Jonah Lwanga, at the Archdiocese a few years before he passed away. Rest in Peace; In my art studios at Jinja Nile Resort Hotel (1999 - 2004). Some of my works were 'Birds on Bark cloth'. The latter has been our traditional attire for very many centuries (see more pictures about bark cloth). In the same two photos, are my paintings of late Archbishops of the Ugandan Orthodox Church; Jonah Lwanga, and Theodorus Nankyama - 1st and 2nd photos, respectively; In 1987, I started a tiny school at my lakeside home in Bwembe; My wife Elizabeth, and I, with our young brother Godfrey, at the lakeside. Sometimes, Elizabeth dried fish, then joined other fishmonger on a truck, to go sell to distant trading centers.
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Elizabeth, then in our passion fruit farm; Gifting our family a he-goat in Uganda; I assisted Reverend Father Anastasias Isabirye in construction of a Church boat; Elizabeth and I with our late Archbishop Jonah Lwanga, at the Archdiocese a few years before he passed away. Rest in Peace; In my art studios at Jinja Nile Resort Hotel (1999 - 2004). Some of my works were 'Birds on Bark cloth'. The latter has been our traditional attire for very many centuries (see more pictures about bark cloth). In the same two photos, are my paintings of late Archbishops of the Ugandan Orthodox Church; Jonah Lwanga, and Theodorus Nankyama - 1st and 2nd photos, respectively; In 1987, I started a tiny school at my lakeside home in Bwembe; My wife Elizabeth, and I, with our young brother Godfrey, at the lakeside. Sometimes, Elizabeth dried fish, then joined other fishmonger on a truck, to go sell to distant trading centers. 〰️
