INSIDE THE BOOK

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                                      Sisters

    The Boy with the Ugandan Toy

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copyright 2008 
Halli Casser-Jayne all right reserved.

  OKUSOBOKA

A Journey Through Uganda

FROM THE INTRODUCTION

"This is a book about what is right with Africa. The best of Africa is its people; a people who have endured cruel dictatorships, starvation, epidemics, and yet maintain a purity of heart unmatched by any society that I have ever come across. Like many I went to Africa thinking about what I can do for Africans. I left Africa in awe of what they had done for me. Though the people of Africa have been victimized, they don't accept the role of victim. How refreshing!

The media has cast an image of Africans subjugated to their dictators and to the roving bands of guerrillas that terrorize African children. But this is not their only reality. What is extraordinary about Africans is that they have refused to succumb to kneeling to the posture of their towering oppressors, and indeed, have maintained hope, dignity -possibility - against all odds..."

                                               Halli Casser-Jayne
 

FROM THE FOREWORD BY
His Royal Highness

King Solomon Gafabusa Iguru I

"I am really glad to have the opportunity to write a few words of encouragement and appreciation for all those who will read this book. This is a book about the people of my kingdom. Bunyoro-Kitara is the oldest kingdom in East Africa and has existed for 4,000 years. Today the kingdom occupies only a small area of Western Uganda, but at its zenith it spread over large parts of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of he Congo.

Misfortunes befell the people of Bunyoro-Kitara when my famous ancestor King Kabalega resisted the occupying British forces and was driven into exile. The wealth of the kingdom was stolen by our enemies and up until now we have not had the opportunity to regain all that was lost. In 1962, after gaining independence from the British, the government of Uganda abolished all of Uganda's kingdoms. Again, our people suffered the loss of their traditional leadership and culture. I was exiled under the dictatorship of Idi Amin. Without a penny in my pocket, and with no friends at hand, I was sent to England for my own safety. I worked at menial tasks to pay for my education. I often felt bitterness and despair thinking how the great Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara has been reduced to nothing..."
 

OKUSOBOKA

The Road to Possibility

Available Fall 2008
 

A portion from the proceeds

of this book will go to the

THE OKUSOBOKA FUND

 

70 tritone prints

$39.95, illustrated

ISBN-0-976-5960-0-8

Contact: 304.283.1163

THE MEANING   OF      OKUSOBOKA...

 OKUSOBOKA  is the Runyoro word for possibility. I chose this word for the title not because of what it is possible for Africa to become. I refer, instead, to the possibility that we the people of the "civilized" world, through our African friends, stand a chance to renew what we once were but seem to have lost to the spoils of civilization.

  The Road to Nyamarwa, Uganda