This has been borrowed from the CLC Website
I came to know the Lord at an early age. I recall my mother singing the praise and worship songs and my elder brother (RIP) carrying me on his shoulders and taking me to the church where I learnt the Lord’s prayer. At primary school, we started a fellowship of sorts. It was irregular with hindsight, I am amazed that we took God seriously even in our naive way. I attended Busoga College Mwiri, well known in our country’s Scripture Union and Pentecostal circles for arguably producing the highest number of Pastors in the nation. However, Mwiri was where my Christian walk developed. We had daily evening fellowships before a new Reverend cut them to three; we had prayers and fasting and Bible reading, and that is where my journey of mentorship kicked off.
Some Christian boys helped us grow- they challenged our way of life -inspired us to be clean, responsible, and hardworking. They gave us responsibilities and introduced us to leadership. It is here that I honed my leadership skills as well as my participation in co-curricular activities, from Scouting to wildlife to music, dance, and drama. It was a no-brainer when stood for and was elected head prefect – a position which was in many cases filled by a Christian.
I continued to write poems even through the University where I went to study law. The poem helped me to communicate with the girl of my dreams. On paper, I became alive, and we ‘journaled’ quite a lot. That collection of poems that Clare and I used to write and others I have written over the years are to be published as an Anthology this year. You may lookout for it.
I also became President of the Uganda Christian Lawyers Fraternity that opened up doors for me to impact more people in the judiciary, and legal practice world. I have also been able to make vital contacts with lawyers in Africa and the world. This position was critical to helping me reach more students of law and impact them. The story has greatly changed in Makerere School of Law. Indeed the athiest nomenclature and reputation of the School has changed. With the guidance of a few Christian lecturers, I have been able to involve myself in helping students have hope and not give up. Their stories and my interaction with them deeply inspired me to write the book “WE DO NOT TEACH THAT AT THE UNIVERSITY: CONFESSIONS OF A UNIVERSITY DON”
When I noticed that the boy child at the law school was taking a back seat and getting lost, I started the Manhood versus Maleness Conversation (which the girls also attend anyway). This series of talks which also happened in the period of lockdown have helped boys, and students to engage in hardly talked of topics – sex, leadership, relationships, failure, etc. All of them are in my book.
By God’s grace, I have had a chance to talk about this book in the media houses and to have reviews of the same written in the media. This is because I have been a regular pundit on constitutional and political issues in our nation. Additionally, as a Zonal Pastor in my church, I have been blessed to interact with men and women who have helped me form the ideas in this book. I am a Rotarian, a lover of nature, an Advocate of the Courts of Judicature in Uganda, and an assessor/mentor in some leadership spaces. I am also an alumni of the Universities of Cambridge and Kent where I earned my Masters and Doctoral degrees in law.
