Outposts: The Writing on the Wall
Monday, May 05, 2008 - 05:37 PM
We had a taste of Kampala today.
One of the main roads is lined with store upon store selling wooden furniture, tables, chairs, beds and chests. One Ugandan scholar Aili Mari Tripp told me that when HIV/AIDS was at its peak in Uganda these stores only made coffins. The sight that greeted visitors in Kampala was a brutal reminder of what was really going on in the country. Tripp sees the transformation of these stores from coffin makers to furniture makers as one measure of success for Uganda's HIV/AIDS programs.
Also today, we had a number of briefings on the Ugandan constitution, and in particular the constitutional amendment that lifted term limits for the presidential office and allowed President Museveni to run (and win) a third term in office. I found downtown's murals interesting; here's a noisy short video snippet from our bumpy bus ride.
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