Kampala authorities are lucky serial litigant Mabirizi is in jail

Uganda's crusading litigant Male Mabirizi

Uganda's crusading litigant Male Mabirizi. ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH NYAGAH | NMG

You heard of America’s national addiction to litigation, and Kenyans’ impulse to sue whoever stands in their way. Well, Ugandans are also getting somewhere not-so-near but in that direction.

Last week, a jilted elderly guy in southwestern Uganda won a case against his girlfriend of several years for going back on her promise to marry him when they were both teachers. The court ordered her to pay him about $3,000 he estimated he spent on her tuition to undertake more studies.