The village headwoman began speaking one afternoon several moons after the village took the initiative of ‘knowing all’ as it was termed. “My people, I have called you,” she began, “As you all are aware, we the people of Mulomba have made strides in developing our village through the use of information. It has not been an easy road but still we believe we can achieve great things with what we have. “Over the past moon, we have reached out to all the orphaned children whose parents died in the pandemic that struck us almost ten years ago, by using their abilities and passions after taking time to talk to them using the questionnaire that we developed locally, with the advice from the government office at Boma and assistance from our own child from this village, Tiyamike, we have been able to target the right beneficiary,” she paused to allow a cup full of the locally brewed sweet beer (thobwa) to descend down her throat while looking at the far end of the attentive and anxious villagers who were now murmuring and pointing at Tiyamike who was seating on a brown circular cattle hide which had patches of white markings about ten footsteps to the left of the village headwoman.
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