Uganda Oye?!?!
What a joke, the majority of Ugandans I know aren’t even patriotic but were only psyched up about independence day because of opportunity to booze!
Shows you how strongly we feel about our country, it kinda pissed me off, because no one wanted to talk politics that day.
No one wanted to discuss why we don’t have one main language in Uganda, I googled it and it said it was English, what bullshit! Do you know how hard it is to explain that to fellow Africans from more progressive African nations, that I can not communicate to someone from the north or east of my own country?!
That people still die from diseases that are curable?!
That part of the country is in famine yet there is more than enough food?!
That our leader encourages and makes more opportunities for foreigners to invest in our country but not for local Ugandans. ?!
That our bank systems are scams.?!
Last night would have been the perfect night to talk about this shit, but people would rather go clubbing. So what could I do? I cant discuss this shit by myself. So I pushed it to the back of my mind and went out “celebrate ” independence in KL (Kuala Lumpur)
The celebrations were being held at a Nigerian place called “Goody Foody”…I know…Sounds like a fucking supermarket or food court at some dingy mall! LoL, anyways, despite the wack name people turned up in numbers! What sucked most was that they all knew each other, and were all on about their own shit, and I just kinda sat there…
The people I came with were like “just come, meet fellow Ugandans”…I did I guess, first stared, said hi, shouted some inaudible words over booming music, then they asked to dance looking all druged up and like their hands were gonna go all over the wrong places…I wasn’t in the mood for that shit so I said no….went out after a while to get some fresh air and then just stayed there…I don’t count having sex with clothes on with a guy whose name you’re going to forget in the morning “meeting fellow Ugandans”.
It’s not that I’m not a wet blanket or stuck up but I really do find that shit weak, it doesn’t stir even a bit of excitement in me so why pretend that it does just for social approval. Fuck that. Call me stuck up if you want. Its just not me…plus niggas weren’t even fly or nothing…lol.
I meet some ladies too, but with them it never went past the hello…somehow I don’t really connect with fellow Ugandan women…okay not all but most.
I don’t know why either…for instance, I think I was the only chick in sandals that night. LoL. Okay I know, who wear slippers to a damn club but why the hell do women wear stupidly uncomfortable heels to club? That night I saw like several pairs of heels of under the table and a bunch of barefoot ladies….only if they knew how dirty the floors are! LoL. Its hypocritical if you ask me…you were heels just so that when you walk your ass moves in an appeasing way for men to later take them off when you get too high to walk let alone dance because your feet are killing you. I don’t know about y’all but I love my feet, and hate uncomfortable shoes with a passion…
I still wonder though why I don’t easily connect with my people?! The new person I meet yesterday and actually connected with was a 17 year old Korean girl. (at campus though, not at the club) That’s kinda fucked up huh? At least to them I’m black no doubt…you have no idea how annoying it is to be called a “white” when I’m clearly not.
Only if I knew what people define as “black”, maybe I could work on it…but the thing is there is no definite definition, and the most commonly agreed upon, or stereotypes of what a black woman should be is damn degradable.
If being a black young woman today means wearing fake European hair, uncomfortable shoes, having sex with clothes on with strangers in clubs, being loud rude and gossipy, listening to bad yet popular music, being materialistic and manipulative…if that’s what is considered a fine young black woman I don’t think i want to be one.
I believe that its the cultures we adopt that shall blind us, its the choices we make that shall guide us. I want to be who i am because of the choices i made, not because of the cultures I've adopted because no offence but some cultural customs are ridiculous....especially African ones.
This post would have been so much better if I had stayed home with a couple of brilliant minds, smoked some thought provoking herb, put on some beats, and talked politics…in my PJ’z…
Saturday, October 10, 2009
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I stayed home, read a book and watched some Boondocks... un-psyched and even more un-patriotic. Your post just made me feel like it was a night well spent :-)
I wish i could say the same. i drank, ate way too much birthday cake and had sex with my primary alcoholic finacier for the night (with my clothes off)and feel absolutely nothing about it. besides the feeling that maybe something is juss a lil off...
"I believe that its the cultures we adopt that shall blind us, its the choices we make that shall guide us."
I juss wish i could stick by the good ones and kick out the bad ones...
uganda oye?!?!?
yu should have seen the way we counted down to this independence holiday. why? cos it fell on a Friday so we were to have a 3 day.
show yo stay in Malaysia?
Ashy - as long as you enjoyed it!
L.A. Lutara - "and feel absolutely nothing about it. besides the feeling that maybe something is juss a lil off..."
LOL!...reminded me of something someone told me recently as we indulged in sin..."dont think too much about it". I think i think too much...i envy you!
Jny - sounds like the ugandan thing to do hey! ....hmmm yup i'm in malAyISA...
I had 2 major tests, got home had 2 minute noodles and was snoring by 9.30...independence day was an "ooh right" the next morning. I think mine was better than yours too. You just gave me a challenge, thinking of something that makes UG as a nation worth celebrating...beyond my citizenship that is.
relax, you are going to sprout gray hairs at this rate,
i spent the whole day trying to talk to these fuckers here about Uganda's place in the macroverse and such and such, guys wanted to play PS.
at least i got my herb on.
Sex with clothes on!! Not only in Uganda. Its the nightlife all around.
your right....i was being anal...think i'm going to spend next year being "young" and crazy, stop listening to concious music, talking about politics, being "conservative", watch way too many american movies and MTV, and see if i have more fun...
seriously...i'll explain in my next post...
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