Second-hand cars, bank loans, and no spine: The intellectual emptiness of Uganda’s corporate class

Let us be honest with ourselves for once: there is a dangerous blindness among the so-called Ugandan corporate class.

It is the foolish idea that public sector issues will not somehow find you in your cosmetic comfort zone. We fold our arms, type angry comments on our keyboards, and do absolutely nothing. You think that because you drive a second-hand Japanese car, one you might even be servicing a loan for, you are safe.

Because you live in an overpriced apartment, eat out once a month, vacation once a year, and send your kids to overpriced private or “International” schools, you think you are living the life.

You sit in your air-conditioned offices, save a few pennies in a unit trust, and pretend the rot outside doesn’t affect you. That is the highest level of denial and ignorance!

We are a generation busy decorating our names with degrees, masters, and doctorates, yet possessing zero societal impact. Did our parents sacrifice to educate us just so we could settle for this?

We pretend to be the educated ones, the elite, but we have zero expression, zero action, no spine, no dare. This ba dear is myopic ignorance!

And let us be reminded: speaking a little English, mastering corporate jargon, and using basic AI do not make you a European, you are still a Ugandan just like Nsamba your boda-guy or Musa your mechanic.

It is a tragedy when we mistake the language of our colonizers for actual intelligence.
Right now, we have no ground to stand on, only cowardice and intellectual emptiness, focusing on completely irrelevant things.

Meanwhile, our nation rots with corruption and stinks of below-average services. There is absolutely no accountability.

And look at the pretence! It baffles me how officials will travel all the way to the bottom of the food chain to investigate petty corruption in the villages, while leaving the massive cancer of corruption untouched right here in the capital, not to mention the suspected money laundering happening right under our noses in Ugandan bars! What kind of games are we playing?

This defies logic. We need to wake up and actually take charge of what is happening in our country. We must stop pretending that we live in a different Uganda than the people downtown or deep in the villages. We need to stop spectating.

We need to play our part in building this nation because no one else will build it for us. No one is coming to save us. When the country goes down, the corporate towers will crumble right along with the mud huts.

We must hold our leaders accountable and stop being ignorantly delusional. This is our home. When our children read about what we did and did not do, will they actually be proud of us?

With zero regret & no kind regards

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