>>5221808Might be one of the most recent images I have made that makes me smile.
This is Captain Ouma Ssendege, of the Ugandan army.
He has been a solider ever since he was 12 and has remained in service till present day.
He is one of the thousands of non-humans in the Ugandan army, and like all of them strong nationalists.
Interviewer: “Where did you stand with Obote?”
Ssendege: “I never stood with him. He is a puppet for Foreign powers acting as their executioner.”
Interviewer: “what of Amin?”
Ssendege: “Words fail me. I cannot express… the pride. I have never had a father or a mother… I could put such trust into! A resurrection is real. I am part to something the world will never utterly understand.”
Ouma has another name he goes by: “The neck with many slits”. A name that needs no further explanation.
Ssendege: “Its an easy target”
He then chuckles before continuing:
“I have been hacked there, with a machete, uhh-uh shrapnel!”
Ouma’s hand opens and he begins to circle it in the general area he is talking of on his trunk of a neck.
Interviewer: “What was the single largest injury?”
Ouma rubs his neck thoughtfully
Ssendege: “One time in an ambush our jeep crashed, I was lunged forward from my seat, dissecting my left neck 21 centimeters.”
The amount of injury that the neck of Captain Ssendege has taken over the years, has gifted him with an almost living god status. Some going as far to say that he cannot be killed by any living thing.
Ssendege: “Its an amazing advantage!”
Interviewer: “Your neck?”
Ouma nods.
Ssendege: “You see them long before they see you. In a gunfight, you poke your head around the corner, BOOM! Bullet through your head! Most people are what? 170 cm tall? Hmm. So now my head pokes around the corner at twice that height, you would never expect.”
The captain begins laughing…
- Interview done in 1974 Uganda, Kampala
>>5230175Thank you!
I need to make more gifs.
>>5233815Thanks!
