I am a Bantu princess, not a piece of paper, thank you
A parent peruses through a pile of birth certificates at a registration office. Tanzanian government has always been fantastically incompetent in the registration of births. PHOTO | HERZON NJOROGE | NMG
I was lucky to be born in Bugando Hospital in Mwanza city, Mwanza Region, in the Lake Zone of Tanzania in 19-none-of-your-business.
Doctor Dad was there and he was very much a paper kind of dude. A trait I inherited from him. Some call it hoarding. I call it being a thorough and meticulous keeper of records.
