{UAH} Uganda reinvents the ‘Rolex snack’, invites the world to come and have a fill
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Uganda reinvents the 'Rolex snack', invites the world to come and have a fill
We Kampala fellows never run out of strange ideas. Once we conceive these ideas, we talk ourselves into believing them and woe unto you if you don't agree with us, especially if these ideas are about the perceived greatness of Uganda, then we shall accuse you of being jealous.
It could all have started with that British war correspondent and travel writer who later wound up as prime minister, by the name of Winston Churchill. Later, accounts have it that he was quite friendly with the bottle. So I suspect it was after several sips of Scotch whisky that he penned those words which have locked in self-delusion for decades ever since when he described Uganda as "The Pearl of Africa".
So while our neighbours including Rwanda have been investing heavily in the necessary infrastructure for attracting tourists from overseas, we Ugandans have engaged in inventing slogans in a belief that these will compel tourists to come to view the 'pearl of Africa'. A decade or so ago someone came up with the slogan "Gifted by Nature" and we have thrown it around, plastered it at the (only international) airport of Entebbe and paid international media to publicise it.
Most recently, in the month that has just ended, we came up with the "Rolex Festival". Now it is not about an expensive watch. "Rolex" in Uganda means a wrap snack. There possibly is no country in the world where people don't do wraps. But Ugandans think they were the first people to roll some egg with vegetables of any other stuff in a chapati. They went ahead and called the wrap "Rolex", possibly from the word 'roll'.
It has over the last decade gained popularity around college campuses because it is cheap and fills a student's stomach to keep them going for a full day. Now we are telling the world that we have discovered a special dish that they should come from wherever they are and taste it. And tell everybody about it when they go back home.
But for all they lack in creativity, Ugandans make up in form of meanness. After a minister launched the "Rolex" thereby making it a cabinet initiative, many comments have come out from unpatriotic Ugandans. Many are saying that our wraps are unique because they contain the dust which is abundant all over the streets where they are made.
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