The Dream of this Place

The late Binyavanga Wainaina titled his memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place. In the book, he writes about the many places that defined his life. The places that made him. As you read, you cannot help but appreciate how these places turned home to him be it in Kenya, Uganda, or South Africa where he went for his studies. The running idea of home is consolidated by the different revelations about his individuality versus the expectations of his family. For example; his stay in South Africa where he is sent to study computer programming becomes the hardest yet redefining moment of his life. He finds himself at this one place where for once he is one with himself. 

Ahumuza Rhona is the director at Holistic Actions for Development and Empowerment (HADE) a community-based organization at the heart of Luzira Landing Site. In 2021, the organization set up camp to be one with this community but with the intention of improving the quality of life for the residents. 

A landing site, like any other of the kind, would not come as different. A community with a very big population but not as much planned settlement infrastructure to write home about. A community of fishermen and fishmongers whose approach to life is nothing less than the search for daily bread. 
With the less regulation and open nature of the work in this open community anything goes. There are many young men and women who find themselves here but without a known..
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