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Footprints Podcast | Season 1 | Episode 23 | Pasture to Past Perfect
From an idyllic childhood in Mbale to a life that helped shape African literature, this Footprints Podcast episode follows Professor Timothy Wangusa’s journey of self-discovery, artistry, leadership, and the power of three words that set his compass. Born in 1942 in colonial Uganda, he grew up under Masaba’s Mountain, nourished by folklore, Bible stories, and schoolroom tales that stirred an early love of language.
Herding cattle was his first classroom; formal schooling began at a missionary primary in Manafwa, where compulsory orations introduced him to John the Apostle, “Baana bange…
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