Watching a few hours’ rainfall bringing Kampala city to a messy standstill the other day brought to mind the achievements made in the East African Community since independence. Incidentally, all three original EAC countries celebrate uhuru in the third quarter and Kenya is also turning 60.
Uganda did last year, and the highlight was the centenary of Makerere University, which started off as a technical college in 1922. But Kampala’s “permanent” floods make you wonder if Makerere has ever produced any civil engineers.
