Good times don’t last for long — we’re back to breathing foul air

Kampala air has for a few years been the second dirtiest of cities on the African continent. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA

We are back to the Old Normal in Kampala and it all so familiar. The cars are back in full force except the unruly matatus. These will come a week or two later. But the usual traffic jam is back. The only difference is that it stops around 7pm or 8pm in the evening because of the Covid-19 curfew which is not yet lifted.

But the couple of months that we lived under lockdown were worth it. For how would most of us ever know that breathing unpolluted air can be so nice!