Uganda, April 28 -- Sometimes we write with the head; sometimes with the heart. Today, have a guess! On April 8, my phone rang. It was Chris Baggya Senfuma, a good friend who I shared a life with, growing up in Jinja, as well as at Namilyango College where he attended O-Level.

That is where we parted for a while, because while I stayed at Namilyango for A-Level, Chris moved to Busoga College Mwiri for his A-Level, and then onward to the United States, where he spent many years, before returning. We were two opposites: I was this quiet, disciplined, straight-as-an-arrow student, but Chris.was chatty, cheeky, chaotic and never absent from the scene of a fight. But we loved each other. Namilyango builds strong bonds between students that la...