Auteur: Alan Clegg

Alan Clegg was born in Ireland in 1947. He lived and worked on the family farm until he was in his early forties. He then took a two-year sabbatical from 1989–1991 to work with the Church Missionary Society as a farm manager in Uganda. After two years, he returned home, but he never farmed again. Upon returning to Ireland, he set up a small picture-framing business, but by this time, Africa was in his heart, and so he returned to Uganda on a regular basis for the next seven or eight years. In 1999, he was asked to return to Uganda as projects director for Africare–Northern Ireland, the funding agency for Besaniya Children’s Home near Kampala. This organisation also encompassed a rehabilitation unit called Cherub for postoperative disabled children. It was around this time that he met Sara, his wife, who is South African. Upon completion of a further three-year stint in Uganda with Africare, he went to live in Betty’s Bay, South Africa, where he lives at present. His first poem, written in 1990, took him completely by surprise as he had never written anything prior to that. Due to a hand injury sustained at an early age, he had always resisted writing in long hand and would probably never have written anything had it not been for the typewriter and the computer. alan@saralan.co.za Deo Gratias