Uganda reinvents the ‘Rolex snack’, invites the world to come and have a fill

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We Kampala fellows never run out of strange ideas. Once we conceive these ideas, we talk ourselves into believing them and woe unto you if you don’t agree with us, especially if these ideas are about the perceived greatness of Uganda, then we shall accuse you of being jealous.

It could all have started with that British war correspondent and travel writer who later wound up as prime minister, by the name of Winston Churchill. Later, accounts have it that he was quite friendly with the bottle. So I suspect it was after several sips of Scotch whisky that he penned those words which have locked in self-delusion for decades ever since when he described Uganda as “The Pearl of Africa”.