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Matovu Musana

Art to Meaning

I am a passionate performing The legendary Beatles have shaped the way I choose
artist and poet. I also love public the words which appear in the poems I compose
speaking. I was the best overall because all their lyrics had a lot of influence on a great
performer at the 4th World multitude of people. Also an American band called the “X
Children’s Festival and have ambassadors” helped me realize how beautiful it can be
received other awards as well. to tag a purpose onto every action. I was moved when
they dedicated their song “renegades” to people with
I first attended Baby Jesus disabilities, which shows how relevant the band members’
Infant School in a Kampala lives are.
suburb known as “Zzana,” then
Mustard Seed Day Care and Martin Luther King also developed my enthusiasm for
Nursery School in a town called public speaking and I like the great phrases he uses such
“Najjanankumbi,” and finally as “the bank of justice is bankrupt.”
Harvard Junior School in a
town called Gayaza, my family’s The managers, producers, directors and professionals
hometown. in my country’s arts’ industry are not very experienced.
Hence I worry that the chances of my works getting great
For primary education I joined international recognition are likely to be narrowed by this
the Uganda Martyrs’ Junior Boys’ bitter, unavoidable fact.
School in the serene and humble
village of Namilyango, where I I did have the opportunity to present a poem dedicated to
learned stage arts. I was later Queen Elizabeth of England on behalf of all lower primary
admitted to Namilyango College, pupils in Uganda at Hotel Africana during the celebrations
which was the first ever secondary school established of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in
in East Africa. Later I moved to St. Cyprian High School November 2007. At the 2015 World Children’s Festival I
located in Kyabakadde. Last year I was selected as presented a poem dedicated to the ICAF.
one of two students for scholarship at GEMS, which
without such support I could not afford to attend. I am The ICAF has tripled my esteem as an optimistic
in 12th year and majoring in Information Communication African artist and also it has tripled my hope as an
Technology, Literature, Business and Music Technology. artist. It is thus with a sincere and grateful heart that I say,
“Congratulations. Twenty years is a really long time.”
My personal ambition is to innovate a new form of
performing arts that emphasizes human values. My dream Matovu Martin Musana Sylver is a scholarship holder at
for the world is to make it a place where people fully the GEMS Cambridge International School in Kampala
understand that our differences don’t matter and the only and the ICAF Youth Board Member.
way each of us can gain full satisfaction from the our one
life is by living with peace and love for all our neighbors,
in total unity, with utmost concern and consideration for
each other.

10 ChildArt January -March 2017