To understand the Ugandan psyche, it helps to know about the favourite dish of ordinary people, called “katogo.” There is no standard recipe for katogo, for the word itself simply means mixture. What makes “katogo” is its paradoxical character.
You just need two items to make “katogo.” They could be cooking bananas (matoke) with beans, cassava with beans, but originally, matoke with cow intestines. There is only one exception — chicken is never used in making “katogo.” It is deemed too expensive to be part of this workman’s lunch.
