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''Okello Sam'' (born December 8, 1969) is a Ugandan musician, actor, and comedian. He is also the founder of Hope North, a secondary school and sanctuary for young victims of the war, in Uganda. ==Early life== Okello Sam grew up in a village located in Northern Uganda raised by his father and his father’s three wives. He is the third child of 20 children. At the age of 16, on his way to school to pick up some test scores, he, and the group of students he was with, were abducted and forced to be part of the Lords Resistance Army. The group of kids were transported to Syria for a gruesome two week basic training. From there, they were split up and brought to various war fronts. About two years later, during a pitched battle, Okello found the opportunity and managed to escape. He managed to hitch a ride to Guru, where he assumed his family would take shelter. When he did not find them there, Okello went back to his village, finding it an abandoned war zone. Okello decided to go to the capital, Kampala, where his uncle lived. Okello’s uncle gave Okello shelter. Okello stayed in his uncle’s two room house along with his uncle’s two wives and four children. Okello then did multiple duties such as, washing clothes, carrying water, and cleaning cars to make money and continue his education. He attended Makerere University pursuing a diploma in Performance Arts. During this time, Okello discovered a dance company called Ndere Troupe and eventually got an interview and was offered to join the company. Through this, Okello’s talent as a dancer, musician, actor, choreographer, cultural promoter, trainer, and arts director, became noticed. While in college, Okello married Marian Lubega and in 1994, they had their first child, Lowino Miele Marilyn. In 1998, Okello Sam’s younger brother, Godfrey, was abducted during school with a group of 50 other children. Okello lived in hope that one day his brother, too, would escape. That is, until one morning, when Okello discovered gruesome photos in the morning newspaper, of 300 people killed in his home village. This included his brother. To honor is brother, Okello created a modern play based on Ugandan and Acholi storytelling and musical traditions which is called "Forged in Fire". In his own words, “…my relatives, my friends, guys I go to school with, and when I got the news, I just broke down. So I get into my car, driving to the north, just doing it out of anger, out of frustration, so many of the people you know have died and you don’t know what else to do. So we kept on driving, driving, driving and I stopped. And an idea came to my mind.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Okello Sam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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