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EMEDI ALI
EMEDI ALI IS AN AMERICAN STUDENT OF THOUGHT A BROTHER ANUCLE ANEPWE AND A NEW WRITER BORN IN 1994 WITH BACKGROUND OF BOTH RWANDANS AND CONGOLESE HERITAGE.

MY GRANDPA (MUHABURA ISSAH) WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MUSLIM FROM THT DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO BORN IN SUMMER OF 1925 IN KASAI ZAIRE PRESENT DAY DR CONGO TO SETTLE IN KIGALI THE CAPITAL CITY OF RWANDA. IN THE 1940, IN TIMES WHEN THE WORLD WAS GOING THROUGH TOUGH TIMES OR ONE CAN SAY WHEN THE HELL BROKE LOSE YOU HAD WORLD WAR 2 IN EUROPE WERE THE SOVIETS OF JOSEPH STALIN RED ARMY WERE FIGHTING THE AUTHORITARIAN FASCIST GERMANS GOVERNMENT OF ADOLF HITLER, AFRICANS PEOPLE FIGHTING FOR THEIR OWN INDEPENDENCE FROM CAPITALIST COLONIALIST COUNTRIES AND THE AFRICAN AMERICANS TRYING TO FIND THEIR OWN PLACE AS FREE SOCIETY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. MY GRANDPA AND HIS CLOSE FRIEND SET TO EMBARK ON A JOURNEY WITH THE SOUL PURPOSE OF PREACHING AND SPREADING ISLAM IN THIS SMALL CRISTIAN LAND LOCKED COUNTRY OF RWANDA LEAVING BEHIND HIS PARENTS AND SIBLING TO BEGIN A JOURNEY HE DIN’T KNOW FOR SURE HOW WELL IT WAS GOING TO GO OR END, AT JUST 19YRS OLD HIM AND FEW OF IS FRIENDS FROM HIS HOME TOWN WHOM HAD CONVERTER TO ISLAM JUST FEW YEARS BACK SET FOR A JOURNEY OF THEIR LIFE TO A COUNTRY THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT TO INTRODUCE THE WAY OF ISLAM TO ITS PEOPLE IN THOSE DAYS A DISTANCE LIKE THAT COULD TAKE BETWEEN 3WEEKS TO A MONTH DEPENDING ON HOW LUCKY A PERSON WOULD GET WITH THE TRANSPORTATION WHICH WASN'T EASY AT ALL IN THOSE DAYS FROM KASAI IN DR CONGO TO KIGALI IN RWANDA. AFTER A MONTH AND A HALF ON A JOURNEY GOING THROUGH THIS ENORMOUS NATION CROSSING THROUGH THE VAST JUNGLE FOREST OF THE CONGO HIKING MOUNTAINS AND SWIMMING THROUGH THE RIVER THEY MADE IT TO KIGALI THANK TO ALMIGHTY ALLAH EVERY ONE OF THEME MADE IT SAFE TO RWANDA. LIFE WAS’NT EASY AS THEY THOUGHT IT WAS HAD BEING IN A COUNTRY WERE FEW NO PEOPLE SPOKE YOUR LANGUAGE ONE HAD TO FIND A NEW WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE LOCALS LUCKILY MY GRANDPA FOUND A SMALL COMMUNITY IN KIGALI FROM A MASJID THAT WAS STARTED BY MUSLIMS HOW HAD CAME FROM OMAN TO SPREAD ISLAM AND TEACH THE QURAN IN RWANDA AND LUCKILY HIM SINCE HE KNEW HOW TO READ ARABIC HE WAS HIRED AS ARABIC TEACHER WICH HE USE AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH THE LOCAL PEOPLE SWAHILI AS WELL CAUSE IT WAS SPOKEN BY FEW PEOPLE BECAUSE OF OMAN ARAB HOW CAME FORM TANZANIA TO TRADE IN RWANDA. FEW YEARS LATER HE MARRIED HIS FIRST WIFE MY GRANDMA’S COUSIN HAD FIVE CHILDREN WHEN THE MARRIAGE DID NOT LAST FOR LONG SHE STARTED GETTING SICK SO SHE WENT BACK HOME TO BRING MY GRANDMA AS A HOUSE HELPER BUT THEY GOT TO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER AND SHE KNEW HER TIME WAS UP SO SHE CONVINCED MY GRANDPA TO MARRY HER COUSIN AT THE TIME MY GRANDMA WAS 17YRS OLD SUDDENLY SHE PASSED AWAY LIVING FOUR CHILDREN AND ONE YEAR OLD BABY GIRL MY LOVELY AUNT WHOM I MISS VERY MUCH GOD REST HER SOUL AMIIN. MY GRANDPARENTS WENT ON TO HAVE CHILDREN MY MOTHER BRING The FOURTH OUT OF ELEVEN OF THEM.LIFE WAS NOW BECOMING TOUGH WITH A FAMILY TO TAKE CARE OF AND A COMMUNITY TO LEAD SPIRITUALLY THANKS TO THE BLESSINGS AND PROVISION OF THE ALMIGHTY EVERYTHING IS AS HE WILLS,NOT SO LONG IN 1950s MOST AFRICAN COUNTRIES STARTED GAINING THEIR INDEPENDENCE AND THE COUNTRY HE HAD MOVE TO WAS NO EXEMPTION TO THE FREEDOM STOM SWIPING ACROSS THE CONTINENT AFRICA WHICH LEAD TO HATRET AMORNG PEOPLE HOW HAD LIVED BY EACH OTHER SIDE IN PEACE LOVE AND HARMONY FOR CENTURIES TRADING AND INTER MARRING TO ONE OTHER BUT PEOPLE HAD FALLEN FOR A WHITE MAN’S LIE AND THE ENTIRE WORLD WHITENESS WHAT IT LED TO IN 1994 IN RWANDA AND BURUNDI WERE PEOPLE WERE INDISCRIMINATE AND BRUTAL SLAUGHTERED SADLY SOME MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY WERE NO EXCEPTIONAL TO THIS BRUTAL WAR. BUT THE MOST SAD PART OF THIS STORY IS I NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO MEET MY GRANDPA BECAUSE HE HAD DIED TWO YEARS BEFORE THE WAR IN RWANDAN JUST AFTER HE TURNED 67YRS OLD,BUT THANKS TO ALLAH FOR MY GRANDMA WHO WAS BORN 1935 LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO SEE HER GREAT-GREAT GRAD CHILDREN WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SOUL SUCH LOVELY PERSON NO MATTER WHAT I DID SHE ALWAYS TOOK MY SIDE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART GRANDMA (MUKAMSONI ZUBEDAH) SHE PASSED AWAY IN THE SPRING OF 2017 I PRAY TO ALLAH TO GRANT MY GRANDPARENTS MY MOM AND ALL MUSLIM’S WHO PASSED THE HIGHEST PLACE IN PARADISE.