Okumu The Big Headed Boy & His Magical Drum
I've just launched a kickstarter campaign to produce my second graphic book Okumu The Big-Headed Boy & His Magical Drum.
The target for the campaign to cover expenses for the artist, the book's graphic designer and the printing cost is slightly over $10,000. I'm delighted to see that nine people have already pledged $427.
This story will be illustrated by the super talented young Ugandan artist Obedirwoth Ken Danton who drew the beautiful images for my last successful kickstarter campaign that raised $16,215 exceeding the $15,000 target “ADWA: Empress Taytu & Emperor Menelik In Love & War.”
Okumu's story, for this new campaign, is universal and we've all heard of or experienced some variation--the torment endured by victims of bullying.
Here's a summary of Okumu's story: This is the story about how a boy named Okumu in Rwot Obilo village who had a huge head was always mocked, abused, and bullied by his neighbors and classmates and how this made him cry everyday and how a tiny strange old man came to the village and gave the boy a magical drum that yielded beautiful beats and how everyone fought to take the drum away from Okumu even though he warned them the old man said he was the only person permitted to beat the drum and how the bullies who robbed the drum from Okumu beat it and how their limbs were grotesquely distorted and how everyone wanted to attack Okumu’s family and chase them away and get rid of the drum and restore peace to the community and how Okumu fled into the dreaded Bungatira forest where the 10-eyed ogre called “Ubibi” and other strange creatures dwelled and how Okumu survived the forest and how he beat the drum in front of River Nile and how the fish danced and flopped on the banks of the river and how the starving fishermen from Palabek were delighted and how they tied up Okumu and stole the drum and left him to die and took away all the fish and fled to their king and took credit for catching the fish and how Ayom the monkey saved Okumu in return for his red T-shirt and how the people of Rwot Obilo thought the people of Palabek had killed Okumu and how both nations declared war and how Okumu and Ayom working together helped save the day.
This story is enjoyable to children, young people, and adults alike.
Please visit and support the campaign and also spread the work.
