It’s Ethiopian but the food is not ready… Why we need the roar of jet engines...

So a mother whose kids return from school at a given time gets reminded by the roar of a jet to warm the food for them. Without looking up to the sky, she would exclaim, “Ethiopian has arrived but the food is not ready…” ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA | NMG

The revival of Uganda Airlines may affect the life of Entebbe residents in more subtle ways than you would expect.

The people on this conservative peninsula where I was born and raised many years ago always regarded themselves as more civilised than the Kampala folk only 20 miles away, describing the capital city as a den place the uncouth.