If you grew up in an African home, you already know the script. Parents are mini-gods. Whatever they say becomes law, whether it makes sense or not. You cannot ask why because ‘why’ is a sign of disrespect, and disrespect is a one-way ticket to an early grave. Here comes Iryn Namubiru, a whole national treasure, who has just shaken the African parenting table with her new book “My Mother Knows: My Journey to Healing.” Instead of singing ballads, she is now belting out the lyrics of family drama, trauma, and the legendary African parent attitude of “I gave birth to you, so I am always right.”

In her memoir, Iryn does the unthinkable. She calls out her own mother for denial, indifference, and accusations wild enough to belong in a Netflix script. Imagine your own mother telling people you dug up your grandparents’ remains for witchcraft. Eh! If it were a Ugandan WhatsApp group, screenshots would be flying faster than the Uganda Cranes losing a match. But the juiciest part is how Iryn is flipping the script on African parenting. She is introducing a radical concept; boundaries.

Yes, boundaries in an African home where privacy is a myth. You lock your bedroom door once and your mother shouts, “Are you hiding a man in there?!”. Iryn is telling us it is okay to cut off toxic family members even if those toxic relatives are the ones who paid your Primary Two school fees. She is basically saying forgiveness does not mean reunion. In Uganda, that is blasphemy. Because here, family is family, even if they are the reason your blood pressure is above normal. So, while African parents love to remind us how they carried us for nine months like we begged them to, Iryn says sometimes the best way to heal is to carry yourself… away from the drama!

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