Uganda: From Life On the Streets to Makerere University

opinion

One man's story of botched parenting, second chances and chasing dreams

When mum packed her bags and left our Kanyanya home in 2001, it took my father just two days to come home with another woman whom he introduced as a new mother to my three siblings and I. I was too young to understand why mum left; I was just about eight years old.

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