Geoffrey Oryema
- Exile -
Land of Anaka
Geoffrey Oryema
(born April 16, 1953)
is an internationally renowned Ugandan musician.
At the age of 24, at the height of Idi Amin's power,
Oryema was smuggled across the Ugandan border
in the trunk of a car, following the death of his father,
cabinet minister Erinayo Wilson Oryema, beginning a life in exile.
Today his songs keep alive the languages of his youth
- Swahili and Acholi and return to the lost country
- the 'clear green land' of Uganda.
