With its 100 bars, drunkards and sex workers, Kololo is now ‘normal’
The abrupt change of lifestyle has been a traumatic culture shock to the ''normal'' Kololo residents who cannot have a decent night's sleep as music blares all night long from the 100 bars. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGAH | NMG
The name Kololo connotes a very quiet, lonely place, so named from the cry of a vanquished king a century and a quarter ago.
The British empire builders using Sudanese mercenaries, superior weaponry and local traitors had defeated the Ugandan national armies and deported their great kings Kabalega of Bunyoro and Mwanga of Buganda to islands in the Indian Ocean.
