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Friday 3 January 2014

A Ugandan journalist’s New Year prayer (By William Odinga Balikuddembe)



Lord,
In my silence please hear me loud:
For people to speak it is I you picked
My lips they have taped
My head they have clubbed
My legs they have clumped
My tools they have smashed
I am timid
like a Katanga kid at a Kololo gate
I am as tense as a cow in City Abattoir
I want to run
but I can’t:
My feet, my head, my pride…

They say I am the Fourth Estate;
The voice of the voiceless
But in this state I am useless!

I am a journalist, Yes!
A Uganda journalist
Ask me twice: Who are you? Who are you?
I WORK IN THE MEDIA, so I say
Lord, I want to be a journalist in 2014
May you touch the hearts of Kayihura’s men!

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