Effective Communication is Key

I was seated in my wooden chair minding my business when someone sent me a text message: "Watching piggery farmers program on TV. I love, admire and want to be like them".

I told her it's impossible especially with her eating habits.

She asked why and I explained why she can't "be a pig".

"Stupid, I never said that I want to be a pig, I want to be a pig farmer."

I then clearly understood what Dr Juliet meant when she taught us about clarity and completeness when communicating. 

You're talking about pig farms and then say you wanna be like them. How will I know that you want to be a farm, rather farmer and not a pig?

In this lockdown, and especially to  my young brothers and sisters, there is no need to rush, we have all the time. 

Write full words and write complete sentences!

Effective communication requires that the message should be clear and also complete.

But how will you achieve these if you can't even write a two letter word "OK" or "you" in full?

Martha says that it is either laziness or illiteracy. But even when the former is more prevalent, chances are high that it is a combination of both.

And by the way, what does it feel like to write "ok" as "k"?

Denis Wabuyi

This article also appears here: http://nangalama.blogspot.com/2020/05/uganda-clear-communication-is-key-to.html

IT IS JUST A SNAKE!

By WABUYI DENIS

A few years ago, I think in 2005. I was moving with my fellow evangelists, going door to door preaching the good gospel to bring many more souls to Christ.

Because it is rural Bugisu, we reached a point when we needed rest and got a spot under a huge tree.

As we rested while planning where to go next, a beautiful green snake made its way out of the shrub and made its way toward where we sat before we scared it off. As it scampered for safety from us, dangerous humans, we also exclaimed "Jesu" and walked off.

We had moved around 100 meters from the snake's sanctuary when my evangelist colleague thought that we should lock hands and pray. I asked why, and he told me that we must pray against the "devil" who had just "attacked" us.

"I didn't see any devil, it was just a snake, they have missed me many times", I said innocently.

I narrated to him so many stories of childhood when on various occasions we have found snakes in our house and sometimes in the same beddings where we were tucked.

The next day, the fellow evangelist shunned my company.

This flashback came to mind when I was moving with a colleague; a distance from home and saw a snake. His impulse was to kill it, mine was wondering why kill a snake which is in the wilderness.

"It is not the devil, it is just a snake!"



Also appeared on my sister Martha's blog: https://nangalama.blogspot.com/2020/05/uganda-it-is-just-snake.html