Reclaiming & Reinventing Me

Am more female than Ugandan,  more black than Ugandan,  more ...INTJ and above all more Jew than I will ever be Ugandan. Being Ugandan is a nationality concept that is so recent that it has not penetrated the core of who I am. I have been pondering on the fact that my parents were not born Ugandan. When they were born,  Uganda was not a state, we were tibal peoples, nomads fleeing from our lands - not sure why but the one reason I have been given is the need for greener pastures for out animals. We were pure Negras with no tag of a Nation state definition to justify our existence...  so today I cease to respond to those tags. To the notion of belonging to a national state. To being placed in a box. Today I am reclaiming the self I am meant to be....the person I really am.