Samuel Sejjaaka

Some chaps recently did conduct a survey of cities in East Africa. Guess what? Kampala came out tops, ahead of Kigali and Nairobi. You don’t want to dispute that because these chaps must have had their own benchmarks, which we…

Probably you don’t remember the word ‘Makunika’. From Morse code to telegrams to fax, to emails, we have come a long way. The word ‘Makunika’ is an acronym for Makerere University Kampala. In the days of the telegram, if you…

The passenger train to Busembatia and beyond used to check out of Kampala Railway Station at exactly 4pm. I don’t know why 4pm but that is what the timetable said. That was circa 1982/83. Travelling on the (by then) dingy…

The majority of the readers of this column probably never watched Alex Mukulu’s play, “Thirty Years of Bananas”. Through the experiences of the narrator, a refugee from Rwanda called Kaleekeezi, the play took a satirical view of what Uganda had…