There is no better part of the city to experience the ‘real’ Kampala life. It’s only in “Kampala’ where you’ll go to a shop and find a guy buying the weirdest combination of things: The interesting part is that the guy is buying all those things on credit. It’s amazing, the kind of characters you’ll come across, especially in Katwe, Ndeeba, Makerere Kivuru, Kisenyi, Kibuye, Kibuli, Katanga and many other slums. Here are the most common:
1. The Gossip Queen’
This lady knows everything that happens in the area, real or imagined. She’s always talking about other people and what they do. She loves criticizing yet she’s far from perfect herself. She’s always keeping secrets of her own but meddling in other people’s affairs.
When you get fat, she’ll say you are on ARVs and when you get thin she’ll say you might be infected with HIV. The sorry part is she’s shapeless herself, looking like a sack of maize brand.
2. Broke guy/jobless guy/idler
This is the kind of guy you’ll always find present in your hood. Most of the times, he likes hanging out with the boys and chewing ‘orbit’ or ‘miraa’.
This is the guy that always has problems paying the rent and his house gets locked up by the landlord from time to time. The idler also prefers asking for assistance and small loans from friends instead of looking for money.
