I grew up at Charles Lwanga in the 60′s. My father was the art teacher at the TTC. He taught his students how to make paints from earths and crushed stone and how to create mosaics from coloured stone. Most of them would be going to bush schools without resources.

I remember Chikuni very well, my mother worked with the nuns in the orphanage and hospital. It was run by Mother Honoria.

Chisikese was our ‘big town’. That shop was always a shop, where I used to be allowed to buy my weekly comic. The garage was always a garage, where Gerry Pickard, Bunny (?) and John Trinidad were the mechanics.

The Hopp Inn (or the Pop Inn?) was run by Nick and Maureen Couvaras. We kids were bedded down in the back of the car, before jolting back up the 7 miles of red road to Lwanga. We had to cross a drift, which in the rainy season wasn’t crossable.

My brother has just sent me a Christmas gift of all Dad’s old Super-8 movies transferred to disc. It doesn’t show Chisikese, but there miles of Chikuni and Lwanga.

Would you like a copy?