Footprints Podcast | Season 1 | Episode 26 | Part 1 | Growing Up Held, Growing Up Ready
Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng takes us back to Genguluho Village, in present day Namayingo District, along Lake Victoria, where her story begins in 1955. She describes a childhood shaped by food security, safety, and a deeply protective family led by her father, a Reverend who watched over her wellbeing with serious intention. Her schooling journey moves through Masese Primary School, then Mulili Girls’ School, and later Wanyange Girls School, where she is nominated head girl in Senior Three, her first formal leadership role. Part 1 also holds the quiet, formative guidance she received as a girl around menstruation, safety, and sexuality, lessons that later gained deeper clarity during her A Level years at Namasagali College. What stays with you is how early preparation becomes a form of protection, how community shapes confidence, and how solidarity becomes a practice long before it becomes a slogan.
©Blurb written by Divine Karungi
#footprintspodcastseries.