The Wonderful Soul of Margaret Ssali ~ Douglas Kabenge

It was with great sadness that we learned of the sickness and eventual death of a wonderful soul in the names of Margaret Ssali.
I personally first met her in my adult life, in Harrow, London back in 1989. The warm person that she was, she invited me for lunch at her home at 24 Kenton road, soon after she learned that I was in the UK.
Her cheeky self introduced me to her children with a stern warning that they were my sisters...she didn't have to say much more. She later let  me know that she was my Great Grandmother, having been appointed heir to the mother of my maternal grandmother. From then on, I related to her with the respect that was required of a great grandson to a great grandmother - though often she would disregard the same and simply draw me into her warm self.
Fate led me to the arms of her niece - Florence Immaculate Bazekuketta, with whom we share a marriage and there was Great grandmother Margaret always cautioning me to make the best of the marriage, to ensure that 'simuswazanga'. This was a statement she went on to say to me in private, whenever we met - which was often, between 2000 and 2019 when I last met her.
The family of the late Israel Namusota Bossa of Lungujja, are heartbroken at this ordeal, of a person that they referred to as Jajja, for she was the heir to their maternal grandmother. They extend their heartfelt condolences to the family of the late Prof. Charles Lwanga Ssali, at the loss of their beloved mother.
Similarly, the family of the late Christopher Kasirye Kabenge of Busega, Kyadondo, mourn with you the loss of our great Granny.
We draw strength from the hope that time shall afford us a meeting in the future.
We place her soul before God, as we say 'eternal rest, grant unto Margaret Ssali, and let perpetual light shine unto her.

May her soul rest in peace, Amen.

Douglas Kabenge
Kampala, Uganda