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There is one group in Abalu starting at 11am with Tony as the facilitator and Robert his interpreter.
As each day went by, the greeting of ebulo aber (good morning) or erio aber (good afternoon), kop ango (how are you?) followed by the reply kop pe (good) became as natural as if I had lived in their community for years. Ninji nga? (what is your name) is politely answered and when they would ask me my name Okello Tony they would smile and laugh, some asking how, when and who gave me my African name. When I told them I was given my African name in 2008 many were surprised by the fact that I had returned an indication that it is rare to see white people returning to Uganda to continue their work.
But there was one more surprise in store, on the third last night we were in the camp, Jackson arrived unannounced Jackson to reconcile with the family in Patricks village. The traditional welcome and the small ceremony was missed by most people, this simple but powerful act brought together two family clans that once were at war with each other and where members of each tribe would die from spears for some of the most simple wrongs. Reconciliation was limited to these clans, but was witnessed nearly every night as more and more people would come into the camp of an evening to be met with much ceremony, hot milk tea with two tablespoons of sugar, beans and cassava and singing and dancing. Before we left it was reassuring to hear that the clans have arranged amongst themselves to continue meeting in this way to celebrate, discuss issues, and from what I witnessed, allowing inter-tribe marriages, something that rarely occurred before the EMPOWER program.