{"product_id":"flame-and-song-a-memoir-by-philippa-namutebi-kabali-kagwa","title":"Flame and song: A memoir by Philippa Namutebi Kabali-Kagwa","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781928215219\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModjaji, September 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e190 pages, Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlame and song\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the story of growing up in the newly independent Uganda of the 1960s. Kabali-Kagwa encapsulates the sounds, sights and smells of her childhood: “the taste\/ of her katogo\/ lingers in my mouth.” Her family is well off; her parents are professionals with respected jobs: “They were part of the circle of young, well-educated and up-and-coming Ugandans with a passion to build their nation. Theirs was a generation committed to family, community and country.” Two of Kabali-Kagwa’s siblings lived with cerebral palsy. They were “at the heart of our household”, she writes, and her parents “made a conscious decision not to hide Fay and Chris – as was the practice in many families in those days. Disability, in most communities, was taboo.” Instead, in the late 1960s, they helped to start a school for the handicapped in Kampala.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1971, Idi Amin came to power, and an era of terror began in Uganda: “From 1972 onwards, the term ‘Gundi bamututte’ or ‘Gundi baamututte’ became part of our speech: ‘So and so has been taken’ or ‘So and so was taken.’” The political situation and the constant fear for their lives forced the family into exile. After years of migrating, including a return to her home country, Kabali-Kagwa settled in Cape Town with her husband and family in the early 1990s. Eventually, the Cape became home, and a sense of inclusion set in: “I return south\/ to the home\/ by the mountain and the sea\/ quenched\/ rooted deeper\/ in red soil, savannah lands\/ and sand.” It feels like the writing and publishing of the memoir forms part of the homecoming, of “weaving threads of my past with threads of my present, and creating a place of belonging”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285410988194,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/Flame-and-Song.png?v=1779711029","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/flame-and-song-a-memoir-by-philippa-namutebi-kabali-kagwa","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}