{UAH} Mr Nockrach, Mr Bwanika: why is wrong with....

 
Mr. Nockrach and Mr. Bwanika:
 
 
In your view what is wrong with Ugandan society? Why it is the change sections of Ugandans elite do not understand Ugandan society? Let me explain, this past  weekend I had along conversation with my aunt-maama-in her mid 80s but still sharp so she told me interesting things.  She said many Ugandans do not adjust to the reality facing them. When I prodded she gave the following  examples. She said many continue to dream of going to Budo, SMACK, Gayaza, Namagunga, Macos, Layibi, Ntare, Nyakasure, Nabumali, Teso Colege, St Peters etc as if nothing changed. 
 
 In her view Ugandan society may have changed in fundamental ways yet many have not accepted that most kids WILL NEVER go to elite schools and instead concentrate  on improving  local schools created by YKM at each sub county.
 
Apparently every sub county has one or even two secondary schools.  That is great relief to parents. In her view, she said parents who are poor cannot understand why they kids want to go to boarding schools far way when they could join the local high school nearby.   When I asked her about the quality of the new schools , she was blunt that it is poor, but that they are serving their intended goals and many are being built to upgrade  their capacity. She added that schools would be good if they were to specialize , for example, sub county schools without adequate capacity should not offer practical subjects that require well equipped labs. On that -laughing-she blamed YKM for insisting on sciences when they reality dictates otherwise.
 
However, she feels many Ugandans -including YKM who privilege sciences for the sake of it but has not provided infrastructure-have not come to the reality that many upcountry kids will never again be admitted to the old schools directly or do sciences. She noted it is possible, but very difficult. So I asked for her opinion and she was blunt: Ugandans should accept things as they are they.
 
Time  was running out because she was heading to church so I asked her about the high poverty rate. she said YKM is partly to blame because his agricultural officials have no clue. For example, they told Ugandans to abandon traditional cash crops to plant quick maturing crops  such as beans and vanilla. Then the same officials told Ugandans to switch crops again and again. She lamented that  NRM killed Cooperative Unions and is now trying to brig then back.  She had to go to church so we left it there.
 
 
So why it is many of us -elite-do not understand Ugandan society? Put bluntly, why do we continue to imagine utopia in education, health etc. as if society has not change dover time?  
 
WBK