KajyibwamiNotes

         ‘’I want’ to motivate my fellow youth. I want to show them it is possible.’’ This phrase stayed in my mind since I talked to him. Young, educated, and open-minded young man, that’s who he is if I can define him. He was showing me the reason why he wanted to join the parliament. We were talking about different problems our country is facing, which were the reason he decided to run for the seat as a member of parliament and address them. Our society, and many African societies, considers politics as a thing of the old people. Bobi Wine in Uganda and Julius Malema in South Africa, are one of the young parliamentarians that are vocal of the problems their people face. Despite criticism they face, they are iconic politicians my generation witnesses. Old politicians especially in Africa are conservative on their ways of doing business, and few of them listen to the youth voice. The youth now are taking the matter in their hands and hold accountable the ...

                                  The phone rang, it was my friend calling, he told me that he was released from detention. Some days before the call, I returned to my hometown after finishing my post-graduate. I tried to reach him but I couldn’t. When I went to check on him at his home, I met his grandma, who told me that he was in custody being questioned as a suspect in a case of robbery. As a worried friend I asked if he has a lawyer to assist him, and his grandma told me that he had one. As a suspect he was supposed to be interrogated which is obvious. As his friends we knew that he was innocent, which was later confirmed by the  court.  If the investigator did his job to find exculpatory evidences as much as incriminating evidences my friend wouldn’t pass that much time in custody. As people who follow updates of the justice sector, we always hear the famous problem of 30 days, whi...