A School For My Village was written by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, born and raised in Uganda. Twesigye talks and explains about his experience living in Uganda and his desire to take up after his brother to help his community mentally, physically, and finically. In this book many similarities as well as differences are noticed between Americans and Ugandans, the young and elderly, and also, the wealthy and the poor within the African culture and environment. Africans just seem so heartfelt because they understand what it is like to be down, and you can’t know what it is like to be up if you have never been down. They have nothing to do but try to get some happiness in their lives by genuinely helping others in their community to the best of their ability. Africa as well as many other countries I feel truly believe in it takes a village to raise a child and they must stick…show more content… “A South African granny told of losing two daughters and a grandson to AIDS and her efforts to care for her remaining grandson who was HIV positive. Another woman, from Zambia, spoke of directly caring for eight orphans and helping to look after sixty others at a children’s center (pg. 244).” With the communities of Africa being so tight knit but yet so small grandmothers step in one because they are probably what is all left of adult life. Grandmothers take on their grandchildren and other grandchildren, raising them for them to only pass away later from slim. Most grandmothers here in America are enjoying their third act in life while grandmothers in Africa have to relive their second act and become caregivers again. During a convention in the book when grandmothers from all over came to the United States to share their stories, Alicia Keys said, “‘Grandmothers…..are the silent victims of the AIDS pandemic in Africa as they bury their own children and then begin parenting their grandchildren’ (pg.