ABOUT EMMANUEL N MUKANGA
Who Is Emmanuel N Mukanga?
Born in 1953, near the shores of Lake Victoria in Eastern Uganda, Emmanuel N. Mukanga was plucked from his parents at the age of three and taken to the Ugandan capital, Kampala. At age six, he was taken to a primary school, near Mbale in Eastern Uganda and at age nine transferred to Entebbe, former seat of the British Protectorate Government. At thirteen, he joined the prestigious Kings College Budo, after which he went to University to study the Arts. He worked at Uganda Television, but in 1976, he fled Idi Amin’s Uganda, starting an odyssey that would take him to over 26 countries in Africa, Europe and North America.
INSPIRATION FOR THE BOOK TITLE
Matthew 21:42
Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: "’The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
Have you ever seen someone sorting out beans, the suitable to be cooked and the rest thrown away? Do you realize that the beans selected as suitable are the ones cooked and all life in them is gone?
The rejected ones, if thrown away, germinate again and new life comes to them. Hence don't despair, when you look at an opportunity as gone by you, just remember that where you are, you can germinate and become a more suitable and productive person.
The above verse was the inspiration for the title and content of my book, “The Discarded Brick – An African Autobiography in 26 Countries on Three Continents.