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Kyesubire Greigg
KENYAN STORYTELLER/SCRIBE
function as Afrikans is to under-
stand the root of our mindsets.
We were trained to think that
we are inadequate and that our
traditions were backward, yet
this is the continent that gave
Christ shelter. If we were so
useless then surely we would
have fallen off the face of the
earth by now because nature
doesn’t allow the existence of
useless things.
I believe that the liberation of
Afrika starts in the hearts and
minds of her people, once they
understand their true roots
in the mind of God and thus,
their purpose. This makes me
more determined to build on
the things God has said and is
saying about Afrika.
Say something about
Msingi Afrika Magazine
and how you feel about
contributing articles to it or
why you do it.
I had always wanted to write
for a publication that not just
allows, but encourages, the ex-
pression of perspectives learnt
from our faith walk and Msingi
Tell us about yourself and hard. Afrika Magazine is just. It is a
what you do, in relation to I have a curious mind, so I space where one can share
the move for a truly liberat- question everything, and I am the things that God is saying,
ed Afrika. designed to restore Divine without fear of being forced to
My name is Kyesubire Greigg order as a storyteller, scribe fit into certain social narratives.
and encourager. It took a while This is a dream come true.
but I prefer using Kyesubire.
to figure out who I am, because
Kyesubire means hope expect-
of the training from the world What's your hope and
ed… a guarantee that hope will
come no matter what. Many to define ourselves by what we aspiration for Afrika for the
people ask me for a simpler do. In this journey I have under- next ten years?
stood that I must first change
name for them to use, meaning I see Afrika at the helm of the
my personal narrative and then
easy English name, and I be- world. There is a reality that
I can be in a position to help
lieve that if we can take the time everything happens in the spirit
to learn German or Russian change the narratives of those before the physical and Afrika is
names we must do the same for around me. a land of deeply spiritual peo-
The way to change how we
Afrikan names, no matter how ple. In the next ten years, I see
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