Urban Planning the African ways
Dear Beloved Mayor, - I’m at a dangerous spot-crossing junction, Lawum Street; Namirimbe road towards the NEW (!) taxi park, from the other side comes a bicycle rider at a terrible speed almost knocking me down. I jump aside, missing me by an inch. - In an instant a young man of about 17, jumps off the saddle and breaks instantly standing over the bicycle! - Catching his passenger cargo an awares, promotes a smartly dressed and dark glass wearing elderly gentleman into a shout: Oyenda kutomera, vuga tugyende a’muhanda! - An otherwise shaken poor boy jumps onto the pedals immediately, leading the bicycle to wobble a bit before the poor boy manages to stabilise and then cross a busy dangerous junction spot. - A medicine doctor at Mulago surgical department has just told me a sick joke, “ these days they are not short of resource inputs, they have a surplus of amputated limbs ”. He laughs it off. Bodaboda - I hope you’ve noticed too, a survey done by me of all buildings on their Architectural and construction status shows the following; - (a). Buildings that do not satisfy urban architectural and construction guidelines but also environmental and ergonomics provisions are all owned and built by Ugandans. In fact the majority are not complete! - (b). Buildings that do satisfy architectural and construction guidelines and meet environmental and ergonomics provisions are all owned and built by foreigners or Ugandan Indians. In fact they are complete with marvellous: parking lots, landscaping and spacing! - Uganda and in this particular instance Afrikans, are very funny people – now we have discovered the Chinese to be very friendly. - They don’t disappoint – they have managed to integrate their architectural and construction culture into Kampala’s modern buildings – - Afrikans carrying the bricks and heavy work , the Chinese managing and directing at time under shouts. - and we Ugandans directionless, we have now a ministry of foreign affairs starkly standing alone as Chinese architecture marvel standing above the white hole near his highness – the lord mayor. - Has Uganda a culture and scientist like architectural, construction engineers or design artist?! - I doubt look at Kampala and one wonder! - I passed by is it called Bulange, yes the Baganda parliament and CBS fully blasting music to the amusement of the residents in the vicinity. It is a parliament though - Towering UCB has been turned from a Jewish / Arab desert architectural and construction wonder into an Indian castle more less a temple housing Buddha. - Exactly as Uganda has had an investment authority solely responsible for investment – besides mega - corporate investments with huge capital input, Ugandans have failed more of the 60 % medium and small foreign investments because of greed and blunt theft. - Yet more seem to be thinking of pulling out to other countries in the neighbourhood. - Characters that have failed investment in Uganda according to a Germany acquaintance are actually those in power positions, not bayaye, peasants and street lumpen. - they ask for an exorbitant difference (enjawulo /Kintu kidogo on everything) you fail they conspire to outwit you or fail you. - No wonder in a radius of three kilometres outside Uganda’s capital Kampala there is a ring of a slum city – this is the most and effectively expansive part of the urban district. - Just imagine that Ministers, MPs, government officials, army commanders and their entourage slave servants parked on land lovers with heavy machine guns – see nothing of a problem in traffic, buildings or anything else. - Those at Kikama were touring industrial establishment as their military commanders curriculum course last month. - What drives politics in Uganda is an amazing phenomenon. - I have been in Lufuka Kirimayaga, Ndejje in Namasuba, Najjanankubi, Luwafu, Zana area –it is an amazing tragedy, how appalling the situation is here. - The choice was indeed not stochastic – was made on assumption that a small sub-urban area with National Housing and Construction housing facilities on Entebbe road might be better – it is only a disaster. - I did a spot survey in some of the rich mans’ villages – here too despite hundreds of million housing facilities many are in extremely poor shape or unfinished. - They tried to destroy my urban planning project but they failed with rumour mongering and lies now where are they? Me Bwanika @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.idrconsulting.com Bwanika ________ http://www.idrconsulting.com --> for your consultancy needs --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.Poker.se - Sveriges nya pokerportal! _______________________________________________ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
