BY ERNEST TUAPE (Craft It’s new foreign correspondent in Kampala) #1. Just 2K I was WhatsApp’ing my friend Kakeeto. He’s a Muganda who loves steamed and boiled local food. He said, “I’m
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BY ERNEST TUAPE (Craft It’s new foreign correspondent in Kampala) #1. Yujo Izakaya Carol, my Tanzanian friend whom I met in Nairobi, told me the last time she was in Kampala, she ate Japanese food. I’ve never eaten anything Japanese. I’m a grasshopper guy. She said
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BY ERNEST TUAPE (Craft It’s new foreign correspondent in Kampala) #1. Remarkable Rwanda The Land of a Thousand Hills had teardrop banners lining the Sheraton Kampala yard. They were in
BY ERNEST TUAPE (Craft It’s new foreign correspondent in Kampala) #1. The name The girl I made a connection with on Tinder tells me she knows a place. It’s a bar on Shumuk House along Colville Street. “Ola,” she says. We meet at a