Let’s face it, what stereotypes do you hold against Science students? They cannot read long texts because they find the content boring. Their creativity is only limited to scientific research and chemical based studies. They hate History and Literature. I could go for a whole day. Two Makerere University Software Engineering students, however, are on a mission to crash and disband all those stereotypes. In their 3rd and 4th years respectively, Jason Kigozi and Liberty Muhereza have written, edited, published and released an anthology (collection of poems) and guess what, it is their second piece of work.
Titled The Girl I Couldn’t Have, the collection is a book that’s guaranteed to give you an unforgettable high school nostalgia you have had in a while. “Our intention was to talk about some of the experiences we’ve gone through to reach where we are now.” Kigozi and Muhereza said. The book takes you through the journey of the average guy right from the first relationship he ever gets, the ones he doesn’t and more basically if you’ve ever had a girl you couldn’t get it’s all in there.
The Girl I Couldn’t Have is online and available for download – for free. Their previous work “Fabricated Emotion” is already known among poetry circles and even has an Instagram account dedicated to it @fabricated_emotion. It features among others, two Law students also at Makerere, Lilian Arinda and Stanley Kangye. The binding factor among these students is that their writings and composition originate from way back during their High School days at Makerere College School.
When asked about their passion for poetry, obviously considering that they are mainstream Science students, this is what Kigozi had to say,
“Well we’ve always had a thing to create, so we tend to fall over the creative side hence creative writing, creative photography et al.”
The book is free to download on this site; https://drive.google.com/open?id=1y6DbtqqMe4b9CTGmFshz91N8eQQqBXUs
