issues at hand

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." this were the words i received in my email the other day by a friend, who by chance keeps me reminded of what the future holds for me.

derived from his quotes, am always driven by a positive mental attitude. however, the carnal mind, wandering back and forth, the pages of my life in Africa as a predestination for my being, and God's reason of purpose for my existence here, fails me to visualize what my eyes can't see.

the problems of Africa...ignorance, diseases, poverty, have always been, and which ever way one may chose to arrange them alphabetically, it still remains the same, the same old story that has been addressed through out all my schooling days.

with a poor education system that never changes, i actually realize one of the causes we are getting poorer is that we're ignorant. can you imagine, with all the self claimed scholars in this place we can't even think of the simplest measures to fight starvation, and yet Uganda's back born is agriculture... i know why ignorance is no plea.


my mama, used to tell me "think positive work hard" or else, you end up as a beggar.what strike me most is how often she discussed issues at hand, in a home as a single mother,with me at the age of eleven, i didn't know what she was preparing for an encounter, some of the things she talked about was poverty...and if i heard once, twice do i look and look gain whenever things are out of control.

i disagree if you call me poor, the positive mental attitude that am not poor but only broke,is what motivates, however, am not all that consistent, i mean, forces of nature at times get me flat footed, drifting me on the wall,but through the hustle and the issue at hand ever sickening,i encourage myself in the Lord.

no wonder people die more and more from negative attitudes, thinking positive is okay, but for heaven's sake, what can an illiterate poor man, paying for his sins think about nature and his surroundings, as the dishonest prosper, the honest continually suffer at the expense of the other, sounds like a blame game "oppressor and the oppressed", yet the rules are the same.

i realize some thing is not right, I've done all things one can do, read about the possible measures to change my situation, and if so, help others live a better life, but its even more frustrating.

survival for the fittest is the norm of society, you don't play dirty, your considered to be too good to be bad, not smart enough to follow with the skills of the net work... nothing good left,ha..can you imagine? apart from evil which is considered good in the name of corruption...wh the rich are getting richer, the population of slums areas is at an increase.

God forbid. if you don't know the cause of the issues at hand, your yet to know.

ignorance, diseases and poverty makes death go round in here...the GHETTOS.

who is to blame, uncertainty engulfs ones clear mind on what to do next.

starvation, increase of HIV, you can't imagine how these things work together even when the local news papers say contrary to the truth.

surely, organized confusions are taking us unawares. whereas people do whatever they can to survive, we are faced with hell every the other day, and...when poverty ever knocks on your door, just run for your life.

sometimes i think poverty is human, sounds like he has been here for a while, people have come and go, and yet its the same old poverty, the guy is still here and seems to the last man standing.
is he a HE or IT?

any ways, the break down point of the whole issue of poverty is scary.

and you don't want to miss out on the next issue. watch out...

welcoming Arnold Katonya to the ourwwworld team

I've invited Life in Africa member Arnold Katonya to join the ourwwworld team of people learning to blog sustainably from and for Africa. It is my hope that we can develop this space together in a way that puts the online communication skills Arnold has acquired as a LiA community member to a sustainably productive use.

To Arnold: nobody is watching yet except you and me, so start writing! Between now and 1 November, I will work on customizing the look of your blog for you, while you work on creating at least 5 new posts. Once you have 5 posts, then we will start working on inviting an audience to see what you've created. There will be some stuff happening in November that might earn you some cash, so that's why the 1 Nov deadline for 5 posts. After that you can slow down to about 2/week.

Please decide on a name and a short description for your blog to help me figure out how to decorate it, and for the purpose of listing it in blog directories. For title/description ideas you can visitthe ourwwworld team blog and from there you can reach the other team member blogs to see what they've done. You can change the title / description yourself if you are logged into blogger by clicking on customize (top right of your screen) and editing the page header. If you have challenges doing that, then send the title and description to me by email and i can do it for you.

Meanwhile, please subscribe by email to the ourwwworld team blog where I'll be posting some relevant tips and bigger picture knowledge that will help you build a sustainable blog.

Hugs and blessings to you. Have fun, and good luck!