friday

silently grateful

[friday @lifeofenos]

What do we actually know?

[friday @lifeofenos]

Airbnb Business for Sale | Kisasi | 55M UGX
2x 1BR self-contained apartments, fully furnished + all utilities: wifi, laundry, water heater, kitchen. Registered business ready to transfer.
Annual profit: 20M-30M UGX.
Kisasi/Kikaya Rd.
Quick sale. Call/WhatsApp [phone]

[friday @lifeofenos]

Airbnb Business for Sale | Kisasi | 55M UGX
2x 1BR self-contained apartments, fully furnished + all utilities: wifi, laundry, water heater, kitchen. Registered business ready to transfer.
Annual profit: 20M-30M UGX.
Kisasi/Kikaya Rd.
Quick sale. Call/WhatsApp [phone]

[Ariokot Faith Patricia @Faith000001]

100 hours seemed impossible.
But for a fight above oneself it feels worth it.
With every step filled with pain I felt the connection more with Mother Earth.
Thank you 🌍

[Mwami lu @lulanzeashirafu]

The Eighth Wonder of the World is officially the Kampala budget.

Happy day to everyone surviving in a city where the math simply refuses to math. If a World Bank economist studied a Ugandan earning 250,000 UGX, they would resign in frustration. On paper, that person should not exist past the 5th of the month.

If you earn 1,000,000 UGX, you are the government’s favorite child. PAYE is taken at source. You pay “Movement Tax” on fuel, “Sleeping Tax” because your landlord increased rent to cover Rental Income Tax, and “Survival Tax” on milk and airtime. By mid-month, you are basically volunteering for the state.

But the 250,000 UGX hero is where science ends and miracles begin. They rent a single room in Bwaise or Namuwongo for 120k, spend 4k daily on transport, eat, dress well for church, and somehow still send 2,000 UGX to a struggling relative in the village. How do you buy 1kg of sugar at 5,000 UGX when your daily income is 8,000 UGX? How do you buy data to read this? How do you contribute 5k for a wedding meeting?

Then there are the female magicians who carry a 7M iPhone, live in a 2M apartment, and rock 200k acrylics with million-shilling wigs on a 500k salary. The math never adds up because a whole roster of men is convinced he is the only one funding the lifestyle.

In Kampala, we do not live on “net pay.” We live on the grace of God and the “kikomando ratio.” We fear our phones. Tell someone you are sending money and they beg, “Please, don’t put it on the phone!” Telecom companies wait like hungry lions for “XtraTime” debts. You send 20k, and by the time it lands you have 1,200 UGX and a “thank you for clearing your loan” message.

We have also mastered the Olympic sport of “Tenant vs. Landlord.” Tenants tiptoe home at 11:45 p.m. to avoid the landlord’s window, while landlords switch off all lights and hide in the dark, ready to pounce when the padlock clicks.

The real mystery is the person earning 200,000 UGX who lives like a CEO. They pay rent, school fees for three nieces, fuel a car with 20k every morning, hit the gym, hang out in bars every Friday, eat at fancy spots, wear designer labels, and still have change for bleached skin that screams “I have never tasted poverty.”

We organize lavish weddings and endless parties on other people’s sweat. You get added to a WhatsApp group for a party where the host will not fund even 10% of the budget, yet expects you, surviving on air, to finance a convoy of Benzes.

At work, some employees only eat at the office. They arrive early with growling stomachs and develop a “spare stomach” to store lunch for now and supper for later. To cut costs, we build in wetlands because rent is “friendly” in the dry season. When the rains come and sofas float toward Lake Victoria, we are first on TV crying, “Government, help us!”

Kampala is full of actors. We smile outside while dying inside. We mask misery with a sharp weave, a pressed shirt, and taxi jokes. Our chests are heavy with school fees and brokenness. We laugh loudest at work while holding our breath until next month.

We are taxed at the bank, supermarket, landlord’s door, and petrol station. Yet we still show up.

Today, let’s celebrate the real financial engineers — Ugandans who master the art of living on an “invisible balance” and keep smiling when the soul is weeping.

✍🏼:Deox T

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

Never build a business that depends on one client, one supplier, one employee or one platform. Dependence is risk pretending to be comfort.

[toye! @iloveyoutoye]

can't explain it but 2015-2020
seemed a lot longer than 2020-2026

[Mwangi @MwangiMaina_]

President Ruto says Kenya wants calls between Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda to be treated as local, urging harmonisation of the region’s telecommunications space.

[Sir Eazi @mreazi]

Whoever mixed lemon Grass Tea with the black coffee should be given a massive raise

[Vensor @vensor_muhumuza]

A South African company has signed a deal worth about $150 million to buy 450 electric buses made in Uganda 🇺🇬. This is the Africa we want!.

[Daniel Lutaaya @DanielLutaaya]

A Kampala resident posted a complaint about an open manhole at 11:00AM, KCCA fixed it at 5:00PM on the same day.
Turn around time, just 6 hours.
Naye ono Hajjat @Buzeki_Sharifah yava wa? 😳

[iriama shamim Kassim 👸 @Iriamashamimk]

The regional museum in Moroto is now 80% complete, visiting Karamoja has officially become a priority #visitkaramoja #roadtomoroto

[Mitchelle Karoro @KaroroMitchelle]

We're the first generation of uncles and aunties who are not fighting for the land because we ain't got any

[Daniel Lutaaya @DanielLutaaya]

This is what we get when jobs are advertised and given to the best candidate Ono Hajat @Buzeki_Sharifah nno ayinza okutereza ekibuga mu byokusaaga.😳

Nakivubo channel is now covered up, street vendors are gone and we are planting grass and trees downtown.
She says potholes and broken drainage channels are next on her laundry list.

Employed on Merit after a rigourous and public vetting process. And the work is now showing us why she beat that long list of elite candidates to this job.

[Mwami lu @lulanzeashirafu]

Justice Minister Norbert Mao has sparked fresh debate after proposing major constitutional reforms, including the idea of creating a two-chamber Parliament.

The proposal would introduce a Senate alongside the current Parliament, a move supporters say could improve representation, streamline law-making, and manage the size of the House.

The idea is part of wider discussions on governance and electoral reforms, though no final decision has been made yet. If adopted, it would mark one of the biggest structural changes to Uganda’s legislative system in decades.

[friday @lifeofenos]

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[Kamoga munawa @KamogaMunawa]

Kyoka even Yusuf Nsibambi is mute about it…

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