Prof Francis Davis Imbuga touched many facets of my life. As a lecturer I remember coming to your office at KU to show you a script that I had written for you to peruse. Having gone through it, you calmly told me; “Ingolo, do not be so angry when you write, whatever the subject is, because even in a funeral, people also laugh”. You asked me to tone down and approach my writing with humility. I’ll never forget that! To date, I have tried to fashion all my scripts and concepts around that dictum. That script, 'Parcels', opened the inaugural KU Cultural Festival in 1978...
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