PROJECT SUCCESS: It was a family affair for the Kabumbas

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Kabumba's Poem

Memoirs of a Ugandan candidate
(To all those who struggle with education, in a world where the worth of men is measured not by their capacity to love, but by their ability to remember)
I read books big and small,
And crammed principles,
In Physics, Chemistry, Maths and all,
But my fear of failure wouldn’t let me stall.

I dodged my bed from dusk to dawn to dusk,
In the hope of the ability to say,
“I did my best” to those who’d ask,
“Couldn’t you have performed in a better way?”

And when the reckoning days came
It is not pride that makes me write,
That what they asked me was the same,
As all I’d read day and night.

I lay no claim to genius,
But I can say – I ran my race
In a manner dedicated and serious,
So saying dear God, I rest my case.

Source: Whispers of My Soul, an anthropology by
Kabumba Busingye (published in 2002)