For Honourable Joyce Mpanga
You crossed the river
with your children on your back
asking you about their daddy
You held the earth
with sadness in your heart
when money disappeared like the sunset
you fed an entire generation
even before they were born
with salt in one hand and hope in the other
you built pyramids made from the doors
that slammed in your face
until the world finally listened
and your voice will never be silenced again.
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Written by Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva, for Honourable Joyce Mpanga, Uganda's first Women Affairs Minister, Africa's first female lecturer at Makerere University, the first woman in Uganda to hold a Master's degree, former State Minister of Education in Uganda, amongst so many other accolades.
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