TOGETHER FOR UP

Samuel Tumusiime brings us especially the youth, timely insights and practical avenues to prevent ours and future generations from sliding downhill. He vividly notifies us that we are more similar than we are different and must be all means refrain from all sorts of stereotypes and uncalled for prejudices. His book comes to our shelves and reading tables in a time setting of growing moral decadence on the global scene and attempts to correct us in his masterpiece. It is indeed a demonstrated study for hope of our society,a model guide for the young and a tool for the elder and helps us ponder,reflect and work on our mindsets as we strive to build and upright generation as Alison Kantarama remarked.

       Samuel defies the nasty saying that education is no longer a key to success in his factual ink that the future with education is manageable but the future without education is unpredictable. In it’s intense cruelty,he warns that colonialism bad but neocolonialism is terrible. Dear Africans, isn’t Samuel writing on behalf of Traore? In his passion for society,he knocks our minds that when we keep divided,we keep dying of our problems and united,we correctively solve our problems with much ease. In this case,we all must listen to Lucky Dube’s Together as One. We all agree with Samuel that an enemy identified is almost a fight won.

     Together for upright generations reveals another rude truth that not all friends are mean friendship. He keeps us abreast that life without friends is like balloons without pressure or air. That good friends are assets in our lives but bad friends are liabilities or even disaster in its finest form. Good friends will inspire you and eventually enhance the best out of you while the bad will stab you in the back, lure you into evil acts and delight in your straying. Isn’t some saying plain that tell me your friend and I tell you who you are ?

     Tumusiime writes something incredible about them. I mean TEACHERS. Teachers are like a lactating cow,the more you handle it with great care ,the more milk it will unreservedly yield which is any farmer’s desire. The most important person in the world is a teacher because a teacher teaches all other admired people we see. Do you remember those sweet words of your teacher,the sweet words you used to call sweet nothings when you were under his stewardship?

Dear Samuel Tumusiime, like other readers of your book, I am equally amazed by your factual text. May you live to see thousands of upright generations. Thanks for touching my heart and healing my mind.

Read and reviewed by Ishimwe Jonan 26.05.2025