The Unfulfilled Dream

Julius Ocwinyo is the author of the critically acclaimed novels, The Fate and the Banished and more recently, Footprints of the Outsider. Here he writes in the Fountain Living Youth Series, storybooks by some of Uganda’s prize-winning novelists, designed to engage children and communicate life skills at the same time. In this story, Gwendolyn Akello joins a presigious secondary school in Kampala. Her parents believe that their great dream for her will soon be realised. One of her friends, however, takes advantage of her village innocence, and leads her down a very dangerous path.