Kulyennyingi, by M.B. Nsimbi, Chapter 2, Part 2

The breaking of the good old customs allowed many women to remain unmarried [lit. cook only for themselves] or leave their husbands without telling their children. It allowed many men to bring into their houses women they met at the crossroads. As the saying goes "She is married who asks."

When people stopped fearing the thing that is called "disgrace" (to be shameful as a small [bastard] girl or boy), girls started to give birth to new children of fathers whom they had not married. Some of these girls, when they gave birth, were not yet sixteen. Some of them, when they gave birth, the fathers were nowhere to be seen. Children who did not have fathers, as well as those who were abandoned, these were the ones who were going to contribute to the well-being of Uganda!

The turning away from traditional customs changed the thoughts of people on many things, including matters of honor which they degraded. In the old days, when a girl was married and found to be a virgin, she was honored by her husband and his entire clan, and also by her own parents and this would cause her to receive gifts from the husband's parents. Parents were very strict in protecting their girl children and the girls also protected themselves against bad men and boys. Men also kept themselves from defiling other people's children and from having sex with people of men's houses [their own houses?]. When those who defiled little children and those who had sex with people in their own houses were caught, they were punished with a loss of honor and death.

In the time of which we are speaking, the beliefs of people about getting things changed alot. Men began to like having more money and things than their friends. If person fell in the street from sickness or an accident, many people instead of looking for ways to cure her sickness stole the things she had with her and left her to die! People with extreme cravings for things would arrive at people's deathbeds to befriend them in order to get their things. Some women did not mourn much when their husbands died, so long as their husbands left them their riches.
Very greedy people began to celebrate whenever they heard that people had fallen into bad fortune as they knew they could get money: sickness, death, crimes, accidents, thefts, and false accusations.


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Okumenya empisa z'ensi ennungi kwasobozesa abakazi bangi okwefumbiza bokka oba okunoa nga tebategeezezza bazadde baabwe. Kwasobozesa n'abasajja bangi okuyingizanga mu maka ggaabwe abakazi be basanze mu masaŋŋanzira so ng'edda baagamanga nti "Afumbirwa abuuza".

Ekyayitibwanga "amawemuukirano" (okuwemuka kw'omuwala n'omulenzi) abantu bwe baa lekayo okukitya, abawala ne beeyongera okuzaaliranga ku mpya za bakitaabwe nga tebanafumbirwa. Abamu nga bazaala tebannakula kuweza myaka kkumi na mukaaga. Abamu nga bwe bazaala, bakitaabwe n'abaana tebaddayo kulabako. Abaana abatalina bakitaabwe, songa si bamulewa, ne bagenda nga beeyongera obungi mu Uganda!

Enkyukakyuka y'empisa z'ensi yafuulafuula endowooza y'abantu ku bintu bingi, ebyali eby'ekitiibwa ne babifeebya. Kale edda, omuwala okufumbirwa 'asangibwa mbeerera kyamuweesanga ekitibwa eri bba n'ab'ekika kya bba, ne mu bazadde be era nga kimufunyisa ebirungi okuva mu bazadde ba bba. Abazadde afubanga nnyo okukuuma abaana baabwe abawala ate nga nabo beekuuma nnyo abasazza n'abalenzi ababi. Abasajja nabo beekuumanga nnyoobutayonoona baana ba bandi oba okusobya ne bakaabasajja. Abaayonoonanga abaana abato n'abasobyanga ku bakaabasajja bwe baakwatibwanga nga babonerezebwa n'ekitiibwa kyabwe ne kibafa.

Mu kiseera kye twogerako endowooza y'abantu ku byokufuna nayo mwe yakyukira ennyo, abantu ne batandika okwagala ensimbi n'ebintu okusinga bantu bannaabwe. Omuntu agudde ku kkubo lw'obulwadde oba ku kabenje ng'abantu bangi okwandibadde okunoonya amagezi ag'okuonya obulamu bwe bamunyagako bintu by'aba nabyo, ne bamuleka awo ng'afa! Ab'amaddu g'ebyokufuna agayitiridde nga batuuka ne ku kwagaliza abantu baabwe okufa bafune ebintu byabwe. Abakazi abamu ng'okufiirwa babbaabwe tekibanakuwaza nnyo kasita baba nga basigazza ebyobugagga.

Abalulunkanira ennyo eby'okufuna baatandika okusanyukanga ennyo nga bawulidde abantu abagudde mu kabi be bayinza okufunako ensimbi gamba ng'abatuukiwako bino: obulwadde, okufiirwa, okulwaza, emisango, amabanjo, okubbibwa, n'okuwaayirizibwa emisango.