Growing up with Teacher Parents Martha Namirembe

This episode is about my late mother's love, how it turned into tough love when I started working, and how that helped me become financially independent.

Music by Harry II ‘The Lungfishman’ Lwanga

I am a Ugandan who used to live in Kenya with my parents who were teachers there from 1976 to 1988.  I have tried to write the location, events, and activities in this story from my memories of them. In order to maintain their anonymity, I have changed the names of one location and the individuals in this story.

I am a Ugandan who used to live in Kenya with my parents who were teachers there from 1976 to 1988.  I have tried to write the location, events, and activities in this story from my memories of them. In order to maintain their anonymity, I have changed one of the names of the location and all the individuals in this story.

During this last month of the lockdown in Uganda (i.e from 8th April 2020 to 8thMay 2020), Timothy Kalyegira compiled the most popular foods and kitchen ingredients, according to Google data and they are, in order of ranking:

1. Cake

2. Sugar

3. Milk

4. Rice

5. Bread

6. Salt

7. Eggs

8. Beans

9. Flour

10.  Pizza

Listen to what I make of this data.

I am a Ugandan who used to live in Kenya with my parents who were teachers there from 1976 to 1988.

I have tried to write the location, events, and activities in this story from my memories of them.

I am a Ugandan who used to live in Kenya with my parents who were teachers there from 1976 to 1988.

I have tried to write the location, events, and activities in this story from my memories of them. In order to maintain anonymity, I have changed the name of the location.