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Uganda Look at This Slideshow?

I've been here for a week during an ebola outbreak, which by broadcast news standards makes me an expert on Ugandan culture, politics, and society. So here is a definitive pictorial guide to the country "The Last King of Scotland" was set in.

Uganda is a backward-Wisconsin-shaped country on the equator full of black people. You may remember it as that place you always got mixed up with Rwanda and Burundi in ninth-grade geography. I've been here for a week during an ebola outbreak, which by broadcast news standards makes me an expert on Ugandan culture, politics, and society. So here is a definitive pictorial guide to the country The Last King of Scotland was set and at least partially shot in.

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Mornin', Nile.

Unclear.

Cherish is the word I use to describe.

Franco-German relations are doing well in Uganda.

Y'ello, Uganda.

The King of Toro's got nothing on the Pussy King of Toro.

Funny if you're older.

Ugandan PD: Special Children's Unit.

Cowboys.

Cavalry pig blowing the trumpet of life.

Highway alertness kit/qat.

Bad load for shorts.

Great ad. "Don't be like this poor bitch!"

Big guest.

Shoe-in for the Signies.

The king is texting.

Kampala mornings.

Foreign Policy's Andrew Green catches up on the morning news.

The boredest king in Africa.

Our plane has a boo-boo.

God's plan.

Going for So Humble with a touch of Hi Guys.

Oh, Kingo.

Oh, Bosco.

To be fair, I might still have been laughing at the photo caption to this African article about how racism is right.

Cuttin' it a little close there.

Nice one, dude.

"Bitch set me up!"

Thronesman.

You can tell a snack is going to be spicy when its mascot is holding up a roll of toilet paper.

Combining East African narcotics with presidential gum to vindicate my right-wing uncles.

Me and the major and Joe.

OK, you guys are just making this shit up.

Dinner is severed.

Wooden scale + styrofoam signs X 67 years of political impotence = reassuring.

Real-life Skeksi.

These items are very dangerous bombs.

BFFs.

Choices.

Suggestion noted.

Zonked.