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Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, Otako and CJ, the hosts, talk about their experiences training to be educators in Germany and their experiences working with children in Germany and how these experiences differ from those in Uganda. They talk about their experiences as children in Ugand...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today!"Maybe I was too black to be allowed in the theater!" In this episode, Kagayi Ngobi talks about his personal experiences as an artist touring around the world. He also talks about his personal encounter with racism in Germany during one of his theater tours. He makes it c...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, we continue our conversation with Kagayi Ngobi, who shares why he chose to use social poetry in schools and communities in Uganda, East Africa. He talks more about KITARA NATION a fully registered arts company promoting poetry in secondary schools and hi...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, we continue our conversation with Ugandan artist Kagayi Ngobi, who shares his personal experiences with social poetry and using his art to speak for the voiceless in Uganda. He says that he "speaks through poetry for those who cannot express themselves"!...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode we have a conversation with a Ugandan author, poet, teacher, publisher and theater practitioner. He shares his personal experiences and stories in the poetry industry in Uganda, Africa and around the world. In this particular episode, we dive deep into th...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! Embark on a soulful journey in this episode as we engage in a profound conversation with Oggie Wisdom Lauer, the driving force behind the Rising Fire Reggae Band from Marburg, Hesse, Germany. Join us as Oggie shares insights into the band's musical essence and their ferv...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, Otako shares his personal experience of training to become an educator in Germany. After a successful first year, he tells his personal story of how and why he chose this career path. How do I become an educator? Surely, your desire to become an educator...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! With so many types of bread in Germany, it can sometimes be difficult to choose when you're at the bakery! In this episode, CJ and Otako share their experiences with a cultural food sock they experienced when they came to Germany in 2019 and how they couldn't understand...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, CJ and Otako talk about their first experiences with winter and summer in Germany and how they experienced the weather sock, but they also found it fascinating that Germans talk so much about the weather. It's a topic that can always be used to start a c...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, Otako shares his personal experience of why it takes effort to integrate into a new culture, based on a true story. Otako moved to Germany from Uganda in 2019, but in order to enjoy Germany he has to be culturally open-minded, he has to integrate into th...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! This episode is about the strange things that happen on trains in Germany. The hosts tell about real experiences they had while traveling by public transport in Europe. Through these experiences, you learn a lot about how weird traveling can be sometimes. Support the sho...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, we talk with Edwin Matovu about how music and art play a big role in empowering yourself as a BIPoC (Black, Indigenous and Person of Color) living in communities where you are a minority. We also discuss how to address and respond to everyday issues of s...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! Support the showContact Hear My True Story : Email: hear@hearmytruestory.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/HearmyTrue YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/c/HearMyTrueStory Contribute to our podcast, Your Support Means a Lot to Us: DONATEYour feedback matters! Share your tho...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, we continue our conversation with a Ugandan human rights activist. She shares her personal story in the fight against modern slavery, in which most Ugandan girls are enslaved in the Middle East and Gulf regions. She helps to bring victims of modern slave...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this bonus episode, we talk to Michael about why he decided to become an artist. Michael has a podcast called "Stadtgespräch Marburg". For your information we have created this bonus episode in German language About "Stadtgespräch Marburg".In this podcast, people from...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, we speak with a Ugandan human rights activist. She shares her personal stories of fighting modern slavery, where most Ugandan girls are enslaved in the Middle East and the Gulf region. She helps bring victims of modern slavery back to Uganda and has so f...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this bonus episode we talk to Michael about why and how he started the podcast "Stadtgespräch Marburg". For your information we have created this bonus episode in German language About "Stadtgespräch Marburg".In this podcast, people from Marburg (Central Hesse, German...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode we introduce our Co -Host Carol Jay Smith and she shares her story How podcasting taught her to love her voice Support the showContact Hear My True Story : Email: hear@hearmytruestory.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/HearmyTrue YouTube : https://www.youtu...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, we speak with Sharon Khaitsa, a human rights activist and administrator at Omuti Kreativ, an organization in Uganda that focuses on fighting human trafficking in Uganda. She tells us her personal story of why she decided to fight human trafficking in her...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode we have a conversation with Eddie, one of the well-known Kenyan bus driver in Marburg. He talks about his personal experiences as a bus driver and how to become a bus driver in Germany. Support the showContact Hear My True Story : Email: hear@hearmytruest...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, we continue our conversation with Sarah Nakitende about her personal confrontation with racism in Saudi Arabia as a Labor Worker. She is a filmmaker. She has worked on several film projects in Uganda such as Calle Between us as, kyaddala, a television se...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode we have a conversation with Nakitende Sarah. She tells how and why she ended up in Saudi Arabia as a domestic worker and her passport was confiscated when she arrived at the airport in Saudi Arabia. She is a filmmaker. She has worked on several film proje...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode we have a true story of Nakitende Sarah. She is a filmmaker. She has worked on several film projects in Uganda such as Calle Between us as, kyaddala, a television series etc. She is also a cook and focuses on outdoor catering, launches, weddings, birthday...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, we talk with Katongole Henry Nathan about why some Ugandans and Africans bleach their skin. What role does skin color play in communities in Uganda and Africa? And how can the practice of skin bleaching be reduced in Uganda and Africa? Why do we bleach o...

Your feedback matters! Share your thoughts and stories with us to inspire more narratives. Text us your views and stories today! In this episode, Katongole Henry Nathan, a well-known artist in Uganda-East Africa, tells his personal story of when he decided to make art his profession. None of his family members encouraged him, invested in him, or even believed he could survive as an artist. But it...