The other side of integration: Invisible people who live on East African leftovers
The crumbs that fall off the East African high table find their way into the stomachs of the thousands of folks who are invisible to the eating chiefs. ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH NYAGAH | NMG
The advantage of a country that is not as big as the Democratic Republic of Congo or Tanzania is that you can buzz around it quickly. In three days, we dashed from the Uganda-Kenya border, north to the Uganda-DRC border, and west to the Uganda-Rwanda border, taking in as much of the Northern Corridor as we could.
Making this journey is a study of how East Africa’s long-distance truckers have shaped the routes they have driven for decades. Many towns on the Northern Corridor were born because truckers stopped there to rest. Little restaurants, tiny bars, and a thriving commercial sex industry often followed.
