Some call her ‘Mukura Old Lady’, others call her ‘Mama Mukura’ because she is a famous fan of this Huye District football team. But her other name is Madeleine Mukaneme. This old woman who claims to be a hundred years old because she was born in 1922, you would not believe her when you see her walking down the road because usually those who are that age are often unable to walk anymore, whether they are able to do so or not.
But for Mama Mukura, that is not the case. Although he carries a stick, he does not use it. He doesn’t even walk away, even though he seems to have quite a bit of strength. She is a very small old lady, about 1.40m tall. Weight may be less than 40 pounds.
She lives in Munazi, in the Save sector of Gisagara District, where she lives with her son, who has grown up because he is 60 years old. Huye District foot bridge. But her other name is Madeleine Mukaneme.
Mama Mukura is 100 years old, but you wouldn’t believe it
This old woman who claims to be a hundred years old because she was born in 1922, you would not believe her when you see her walking down the road because usually those who are that age are often unable to walk anymore, whether they are able to do so or not.
But for Mama Mukura, that is not the case. Although he carries a stick, he does not use it. He doesn’t even walk away, even though he seems to have quite a bit of strength. She is a very small old lady, about 1.40m tall. Weight may be less than 40 pounds.
She is often around the city of Huye, since she never misses the Huye Stadium when there are games, especially of the Mukura team. she used to play football for the Mukura team. This team is the one who gave her away, and it is she and her fans who own her because she can no longer work for a living.
She says, “Even the farming failed. I am supported by Mukura. They give me something to eat, they give me something to drink. I love Mukura so much, and I love Getera Edmond!” Gatera Edmond is a sports reporter for Community Radio in Huye, who often helps him.
He also bought her a radio so she could listen to the news, even though she is now dead. However, he agreed to buy her another one. Mama Mukura says that she has loved football since she was a child, and she started watching it at the age of 15. At that time she lived in Gitarama, but she used to go to watch it in Nyanza where she saw King Rudahigwa who also came to watch it.
She says, “I am interested in football alone. Even now, when I see the children playing there, I would kick them! Even though I’m old! At home in Munazi, when I see where children are playing in the street, they also attack me. They know you love me.”
Apparently she is a sociable old lady. He tells me that for him the first thing is love and that it is accompanied by peace. She says, “I want peace in life. Do I need money? Thank you, but I am a child of God. I will love people, and I will love only God because he is the one who brought me to this place.”
The old woman shows the scars of the knives that were cut during the Genocide, on her arm, and says that she also has scars on her ribs. she doesn’t even have a front tooth, and it was said that the person who hit him in the mouth, wanted to kill him.
Regarding the secret of being strong yet old, she says that it is nothing but the fact that she grew up eating well, since her family did not feed the king’s cows, and she grew up drinking milk.
She said, “Our family was strong. I also ate the meat from the baskets where they bought corn, beans and coffee, I ate the baskets, I ate the skins, according to Rudahigwa. ”
Being strong is also thanks to his love for sports, and even now that he is old, he does it because he wakes up at nine o’clock at night, walks as much as he can (Bunyyi as he calls it), and then returns home.
She urges young people to also love sports, because it makes people healthy. Mama Mukura says that she studied primary school but did not finish it, however she knew how to read and write even though she can’t read and write now because she can’t see well.
The house she lives in with his beggar is happy because it is filled with fire, but if he throws sand and cement over it, he will be kind to them.
