“OBAMA VICTORY EXCITES UGANDA”

The bold, capitalized headline taking up half of the front page of today’s New Vision.

Last week I was at a bar and ran into a World Bank employee. We got into some deep stuff – the kind of world-shattering discussion that tends to happen after a few beers amongst idealists. “How do we stop all this war and suffering, man?”

Anyway, for someone reason I mentioned the phrase “Since colonialism in Africa ended...” Ronny, the off-duty club DJ, overheard me and leapt into the conversation, a little irritated.

“But what about neo-colonialism? That’s still here. You know, all this money you give us is great, but you tie us down. You still control us.”

“So how come you can’t deal with your problems on your own?” said World Bank.

“Well, we are so poor, we are suffering. What can we do?”

“So you need the money. But if we give it to you, you’ll accuse us of controlling you, of being colonialists. How can we win? How can we fix this?”

Ronny, only 10% joking: “Elect Obama, man!”