‘Where are you from?’ is a question I have answered so many times that the answers are automated in my head – auto-response doesn’t only work with emails and whatever else you use it for – I just reply in 2 seconds ‘Born and raised in Kampala, Kasubi -Lubya’. I am what many call a city born. I had never left the city until university called, and I was off to Western Uganda. Not everyone was happy with that decision. ‘How will she manage on her own?’ ‘She is so young to be going there alone’ – I had a cousin aunt who was also going to the same university…
