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    {"id":6820,"date":"2014-12-07T22:27:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T04:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2014-12-07T22:28:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T04:28:50","slug":"ugandan-deaf-boy-silent-15yrs-speaks-inspirational-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/ugandan-deaf-boy-silent-15yrs-speaks-inspirational-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan deaf boy silent for 15yrs, now Speaks.  [An inspirational Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"stag-section stag-video\"><iframe title=\"Patrick Speaks | Unreported World | Channel 4\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AHfC6jqBhkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>&#8220;If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.&#8221;~nelson Mandela<\/h3>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine\u00a0being born deaf for even a second, how much more not being unable to communicate with anyone for 15years. This is the true story of Patrick Otema, a teenager Living in silence for 15years in a remote village in Uganda where there were no schools for deaf, nor any developed sign language for him to even hold a conversation with his family.<\/p>\n<p>Mandela once said, <strong><em>&#8220;If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> These wise words manifested in this beautiful story. &#8216;Amazing&#8217;, is all I could say when Patrick smiled after realizing that he was being taught a language to be able to communicate not only with his family, but with his school mates as well. A language which was his language.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>&#8220;If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em>What language are we speaking as Black people to bring as together. It&#8217;s been decades and we still have the same issue of ignorance amongst us to separate us; Africans, African-American, Caribbeans, Afro-Latinas etc. What language are we speaking ?<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6821\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/patrickdeaftaughtsignlanguage.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Otema deaf Speaks\" width=\"634\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/patrickdeaftaughtsignlanguage.jpg 634w, https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/patrickdeaftaughtsignlanguage-340x213.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6822\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/deafkid.png\" alt=\"deafkid\" width=\"650\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nUgandan deaf boy silent for 15yrs, now Speaks.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span class=\"copy-paste-block\">Inspired by Bob Marley\u2019s philosophy \u201cNone but ourselves can free our mind\u201d, Orijin is a unique \u201cCulture Brand\u201d connecting all African descendants together through it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/ORIJINSTORE.COM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fashion brand<\/a> and thought provoking <a href=\"http:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">magazine<\/a> to influence our lifestyles world wide\u2026.Don\u2019t just WEAR Culture, SHARE Culture<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. 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