Maama Janet Kataaha Museveni:

"When Yoweri visited, I always looked forward to his stories. He had the ability to make everyone laugh. I remember I used to laugh until my sides hurt and my eyes teared. He was so funny, he brought laughter back into my life." 

"When Yoweri entered my life, he had such a calm certainty of character, as if there was a secret that he was not telling. As if, somehow,  he knew that everything would be fine and we would all go home to Uganda one day and our lives would be normal again." 

‘We have gone through many ups and downs, but I believe that it is the testament to God’s faithfulness that we are still together today.” 

“The life that we embarked on as husband and wife on that sunny summer day in England was not an easy one by any means…Today, many things have changed; we are much older, parents and grandparents..” 

Mzee Yoweri Kaguta Museveni:

“Our renewed meeting on Christmas Day in 1972 at Hilton Hotel in Nairobi was, therefore, not the first…God had arranged to bring us together at this moment in her life when she was still grieving the loss of her mother. As God’s miracles go, by 1973 we were married and by April, 1974 we welcomed our firstborn child, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, into the world. Janet moved from being one person to being a family of two and then three in a short space of time. Therefore, God had come in and rearranged the situation and now the loneliness was being challenged. She is now the mother of four grown up children; Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Nyinacwende Natasha, Kokundeka Patience and Kyaremera Diana. So God has really multiplied our family and restored double whatever Janet lost in her early years.”  

“Young people these days talk of stamina. Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha Museveni certainly has stamina.” 

“I want to take this opportunity to thank Maama Janet because through her I found company, did away with loneliness but also managed to expand my family,..it’s now a bigger family.” 

Thus goes an Old Christian hymn written by George Herbert first published in 1633 and set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1911.

Come my joy, my love, my Heart.
Such a joy as none can move,
Such a love as none can part,
Such a heart as joys in love. 

We at Ushindi Magazine, through our pages, take this opportunity to Thank God for your lives. Through you, His great promise to His Ugandan children is made manifest. 

Yours indeed has been ‘Such a joy as none can move’; Such a heart as joys in love. May it remain so. We celebrate you.