Last week as part of the media studies club I coach at my old primary school, I asked the 10-12 year olds to imagine what their favorite story book character would be like if he or she were Ugandan. The results were interesting and hilarious.
At the behest of my friend Sly, I’m extending the sillinesss to this blog, particularly to this week’s craze: Harry Potter.
It’s simple. Just fill in the missing blank. If Harry Potter were Ugandan …
Here are some of Sly’s suggestions:
- Quidditch would be a game of Ekigwo
- Instead of entering Hogwarts though Platform 9¾ , he’d step on an egg, run in a circle and disappear into Lake Victoria
- Voldemort would be the pastor of an outlandish Pentecostal church
Fantastic idea!!!
I wish you were my guest-teacher when I was that age. So fun & creative!!! Those kids are lucky!
Ps Harry Potter rocks.
If Harry Porter were Ugandan…I still would not read the book.
…it would be called Divizionz.
@Dee, ha! Divisionz would turn Harry and Ron into weed smoking rastas and Hermione would be a ghetto hoochie mama. I’m going to have fun creating a new plot along these lines.
Ouch! The Dark Lord is a pastor?
If Harry Potter were Ugandan then I’d be JK Rowlings…(this time a male)
I would slap him in the face and tell him he is lost
ha ha…i think quiddich would be world dool championships!
@esquire – How I miss my childhood! I was no dool champ, but I did my duty driving my mother crazy by digging holes all over the compound. I’d have done better with supernatural dool …
That is brilliant… it not only helps the children to explore their imagination but to also live their everyday through characters they wouldn’t ordinarily relate to.
Hmmm…. and a bunch of comments here prove how stifled, by religion I believe, imagination can be even among adults!
@Njoroge – Soooo true. Soooo sad.
I think it’s wonderful that you’re doing the Harry Potter thing.
Kudos! Imagine what different paths our lives would have taken if we’d had guest teachers?!
If Harry Potter was Ugandan (and the story stayed within the theme and general goodwill of the Harry Potter series):-
1. His relatives would be the same nasty people
2. Platform 9 and 3/4 would have been right in the middle of the old taxi park
3. Diagon alley would be somewhere in Nakivubo
4. Rather than brooms people would fly on hoes
5. Voldemort would have been raised at Sanyu Babies Home
6. Professor Snape would be a mean looking light skinned and portly man.
7. Hagrid would be half kalabanda and half human (instead of half giant)
8. Ron would be from Hoima and Hermione from Kabale (what?!)
9. Voldemort and Idi Amin would have either some kind of familial relationship or maybe we’d find out he’d taken over his body like he did with Professor Quirrel
10. The Dorms would be Nyakalengija (Hufflepuff), Mutambuka (Gryfindor), Apio (Ravenclaw) and Musitwa (Slytherin)
Ok so I know too much about Harry Potter. Maybe mine will turn out into an epic story like that one!