Kenyan Situation and Me

Living in Kampala, Uganda or for that matter any place with whose topography your folks are not well versed with is problematic. If anything happens any place nearby, you are the ones who are bombarded with emails, smses and phone calls.

Take for instance, the case of the Kenyan trouble. Kenya is a different country and everything associated with Kenya is different including the people, culture, security, infrastructure and even the expartriates living there. The only problem is that it is near to Uganda and whenever the crisis in Kenya is talked about, Uganda is named invariably.

There have been a lots of things happening there in Kenya and the worst affected are no doubt the common people living there but people like me living here in Uganda are also well affected. Our fuel and most of the Raw material comes through Kenya, so it has affected most of the supplies incoming into Uganda and production in local entities as well. On personal front, Everytime I find anyone from my friends or family circle online, I have to convince them that Kenya is a different place than Uganda. The airtime expenses have gone up. I have to call my family everyday to say that I m fit and fine here, that today's violence was in so and so place is not in my residence 'country'. It may feel funny for us to comment on it, but the situation was really grave and worth giving a thought that can Africa ever be sure of having regimes, which can boast of being democratically elected and constitutionally correct. From Kenya's example, we can say that even economical powers dont have a stability, when it comes to governance.

For that matter, I can reliably comment that Uganda is an oasis of peace and stability (for the timebeing, but hopefully will continue to be so in future).