Musical Compilation - Uganda
For the four weeks or so I was in Uganda, the World Cup was on every TV. No one was tuned to music channels. But you could still hear a bit in the urban streets and cafes.
Which reminds me of an incident that shows how Africans always seem to look after each other and everyone else.
(I'm pleased to see there's an Australia-to-Germany trip report on this forum saying the same thing).
This incident happened in the crowded bar of the camp site in Kampala.
One evening, the England v Germany game was on. On the TV, with all the razmatazz of the buildup and pre-match pundits.
The bar was fairly packed, mainly with Americans.
Now as I've said before I don't follow football, and all this match build-up stuff on the TV was putting me off. Not many bets seemed to be on England.
Then the match started, and although I know nothing about the flow of the game, it didn't look good. So at an anxious moment in the game I slipped quietly out of the bar to find something more interesting to do.
Now the bar was pretty busy. At a guess, 100 or so people in there. Only two or three barmen were holding the fort, handling food orders as well, and were kept 100% occupied.
Well, the next morning I popped in for breakfast. Straightaway one of the barmen, who was on duty the previous evening, called out to me, "Hey, how come you disappeared during that game last night? That was your team wasn't it??"
The barman had noticed that one, out of a hundred or so customers, was no longer there during the match. How did he do that? While constantly serving everyone else?
They keep an eye out for you......
So, from village life to big bikes and bling. Featuring Clever J:
Bakiga traditional dance, performed at the campsite where I stayed on Lake Bunyonyi:
For a complete change of tack, here's the preliminaries of a big Ugandan wedding on Lake Victoria:
A few Ugandan bikes, and a big overland 4X4:
Like Kenya, Christianity features strongly in Ugandan life. A choir sings in English:
Traditional Busoga dance from eastern Uganda:
Clever J is a big name, here's another youtube. More bikes on the streets this time:
Samite, singing 'Mutoto' ('Young child' in Swahili):
This is a Ugandan/Tanzanian song. Sung, I think, in the Malagasy language of Madagascar. It's a sad song:
Traditional folk song and dance of western Uganda:
Samite again, playing the mbira: