BUWEMBO: Kiira! Power! Why Ugandans have reasons to love the water more
Now the real name of River Nile from which most of Uganda’s electricity comes is Kiyira, meaning the roar of its waterfalls. But many people don’t pronounce the ‘y’ so it it pronounced ‘‘Kiira.’’ And so Kiira EV became the name of the country’s first electric car. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA | NMG
The chilling announcement came last weekend: Expect the rains to continue pounding until the end of the year. We rarely pay attention to the weather forecast but this time Uganda’s Met department called a press conference rather than sending the daily dispatch that nobody pays attention to. So we sat up and listened, and the news is scary.
They started with the positive news—that we can go out and sow—you wish all it takes to plant is rain.
