SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Joseph Kabuleta’s Lockdown Diary
Sometime in the early 2000s, on one of my journalist travels, we were seated around the dinner table at a hotel in Dakar, Senegal, with several sports writers and broadcasters from across the continent.
I impassively listened as each scribe spoke glowingly of their home country; the Senegalese re-lived the wonders of their 2002 World Cup campaign, the Kenyans exulted in their first free election after Daniel Arap Moi’s long-haul, and how they supposedly produce the best beer
Aug 28, 2019 • 45 tweets • 7 min read
THE RETURN OF THE RANT
(Joseph Kabuleta’s Weekly Rant)
His name was Beera. How could I forget it, or the last time I ever saw him?
He was our neighbor in the staff quarters of Kinyara Sugar Works in Masindi, and it was the first day of 1984...
The previous night’s festivities had started around 9:00pm but gathered momentum like a medieval steam train as numbers swelled and music got louder. I drifted off to sleep to the sounds of Super Mazembe’s Kasongo Yeye and woke up to shouts of “ten, nine, eight……
