What is my Name!!

uzomah ugwu
1 min readAug 25, 2024

I have a name that is hard for those who come from the West to pronounce, and some refused to respect my culture. I succumbed to their disrespect or influence from colonialism and allowed them to call me a shortened version of my name. But I still got disrespected, and those same people still do. So I relate to the Vice president, and well, I have to say she is of Jamaican descent also and forget that is like forgotten all the reggae songs that made me proud to be black and from Africa because as Peter Tosh sang as long as you are a black man, you are an African. And all the reggae songs that were and still are political and for the liberation of a people, and that means all people who are fighting to survive.

So if she wins, this country will have the first Jamaican female president, who is also of South Asian descent. So this country will have three firsts.

You can find the song by Peter Tosh here.

PS. I grew up with Fela Records and Reggae tapes, and music that is political is also a good time for me.

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