Alas, poor student, I knew him well, he put the piglet back in poverty
The poor youth would buy a number of piglets – these don't come cheap, by the way – and release the squealing creatures in high places unexpectedly. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGAH | NMG
There is an obsession with poverty in Uganda that is difficult to understand in a land where everyone aspires to be rich. The way Ugandan youth flaunt their poverty is a case in point.
And it didn't start yesterday. In the late 1980s, a movement of “Needy Students” sprang up at Makerere University. Although the majority of the students who made it to the then only university were from relatively “able” families that had seen them through expensive secondary schools, the Needy movement attracted so many members that when it fronted a candidate for the student guild presidency, he won with a landslide.
