By Leonard Kamugisha Akida,
KAMPALA
In lighting the fires of rising woman, Queen Lynn Olepus Edinance, Miss Tourism Teso 2023 has asked women to become good book readers in order to explore and understand their potentials.
“It is very important for every woman to equip themselves with knowledge from books because there are many things you might not get unless you read,” she urged.
She was speaking to journalists at an official book launch of the Back To The Vine book by David Livingstone Mukisa at Serena Hotel Kampala on Thursday 10th August, 2023.
According to her, reading can be used a s a symbol of feminity that seeks to redress stereotypes for girls and women to realize their potentials in societies.
About The Book
Back To The Vine book, is a spiritual publication treatise based on divine revolution and authored by David L Mukisa, a church minister who has interested himself on getting the born again faithful appreciate the wealth treasured for them in the bioeconomy.
The book portrays key elements regarding finances in the church and reveals why poverty prevails in the church.
Commenting on the book, Olepus urged women to read Back To The Vine and other reading materials noting that the book will enable women to gain useful knowledge and experience required to understand their place in society from a christian perspective. She says the current generation has attempted to change the perspective of what women ought to be or do and asked women to know their purpose of creation from the roots of christianity.
In Africa, many women have a desultory, and at best casual approach to reading books. In fact, majority of the women feed themselves on a steady diet of women’s magazines and television soaps than reading godly literature and other genres of socio-transformation books. But, Queen Olepus believes that reading brings women into action to speak out against goals and challenges of women today as well as inspiring and empower others.
“As a woman you owe this generation alot because women are best teachers. So, read this book and other genres of reading to be able to inspire and empower other women in order to build a better generation,” she urged.
Speaking at the launch of the book, Immaculate Keneema, public relations personnel at Ambrosoli Consult Uganda limited, also the Ex- beauty queen under Miss Tourism Uganda, Tooro region said there is a need to incorporate the ways of the church which is today seen as “dead” and encouraged christians to read Back to the Vine book in order to learn how they can ably go back to their paths.
