Survivors never quit!
It was one morning of a Thursday in 2001, when I woke up heading to school, and on my way there with other pupils, we were told that the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels who started their guerilla war in the area in 1996 had raided my village and the entire now Bunyangabu district. I was in primary seven and preparing to seat for my PLE, my dreams of sitting my first academic level were put at test. For some reason, there has always been a huge stumbling block each time I wanted to achieve something along my life journey, but, I always found sufficient grace to sail through, and yes, here I am today. So, the ADF story goes on, as we walked (with other school children) we ran direct to school which was close to our home; hardly had we entered the classrooms than we heard thunderous pellets of the famous AK 47 gun, I was flabbergasted and couldn’t stand the loud alarms coming in from a near by village, Busiita where they had shuttered some part of the national road. ...