Restore sanity in Kampala? You must be joking, right? Maybe not

Before Uganda went into Covid-19 lockdown, Kampala had sunk below the bottom of confusion as traffic could only be described by one word: “chaos”. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA

Although disappointments in public affairs over the decades have turned many Ugandans into pessimistic cynics, they now have reason to be optimistic about their capital city in the post-Covid era.

In the past decade, Kampalans have looked in quiet envy at the streamlining of Nairobi’s infrastructure, the transformation of public transport in Dar es Salaam and uncompromising sanitation of Kigali.