You are ugandan if....

I realised  that in the world people wake up and have reasons to be proud of their countries.In East Africa Kenyans stand proudest and with good reason.

Today I will be giving reasons why you should be proud to be Ugandan

Lets get this party started!!!   

We are a band wagon nation

Yes we are don't give me that oh no she didn't look. Remember about 5years ago when rock music was the ishhh. Every Ugandan who wanted to fit in the league of cool people actively started using Google to find out the latest rock music. Of course there were wanna- bes who new a song or two and they got by. 

The real rockers hard a super hard time during this period. Imagine you strike up a conversation with a seemingly knowledgeable girl who seems to know rock and turn out she knows like 5 artists , knows no albums and she calls her self a die hard rocker. boo-hoo.

Ohh we cannot forget the places like steak-out that made their name with the famous rock night .i.e wanna be hangout....the dj would play rock till about 11:30pm and then slowly start playing reggae versions of the rock songs and before you know it it was fully fledged dance-hall on a rock night.

Well now the rockers can breathe easy. the new in thing for cool people is watching  live bands.

Its painful to describe this one. We used to have a few respectable bands that played music that made sense. Then some one woke up and realised that they could make a fortune from doing live band music and voila the rise of like a thousand bands.

I must say there are a few who have got there stuff right. they are here to stay because they are the real deal.Then the remaining  98% are doomed to fail because they lack originality....copycats.

and well the Ugandan crowd who right now is not disappointing has discovered bands and it just rolls of their tongues.  I was with a friend who asked me about a band and I was clueless and her reaction was OMG!!! ''you don't know that band they are like the in-thing.''

Inwardly I smiled, I was thinking this too will pass.

Our roads!!!!

hah you know you are Ugandan if you take a 20minute ride around town and you get out of the car/taxi with a back ache.

we have so many potholes  am thinking they should be like a tourist attraction. so the tourists can mark us in the calenders for some thing unique. 

a child  out there will plead with their parents to come and feast their eyes on potholes big enough to start a fish farm in them.

Of course we have a poor drainage next to the roads and the fresh  bouts of sewerage  smell welcome you , with sometimes heavy sewerage  spillage onto the roads, but hey it makes us Ugandans.

You know you are Ugandan if you do not know the role of the political figures in your area.

If you think am kidding go out and randomly ask  people the role of an MP, RDC, and LC3.

The responses I got were blank stares and no answers.... We elect people ever 5years or so and we do not know their roles in society besides sending them to that big house called parliament to sleep. We are very unaware what  are supposed to do but we don't hesitate in sending them to offices where they get fat paychecks every month.