Zhoudeuganda

 So...the primary mode of transportation here in Kampala is not cars or buses, but motorcycles. These are known as "bodas." Sometime back (I don't know when), East Africa got the brilliant idea to import bodas mostly from India and they came to be all the craze. Because if you can ride a bicycle, you can ride a boda, is the thinking. And bodas proved to be the answer to the unemployment problem especially among young people. All you had to do was get one (registered or not), and solicit riders for hire (again, whether or not you have a license). Now more than 90% of bodas in Uganda are used for income purposes.  So, now Kampala is drowning in bodas, millions of them. Though there are traffic laws--the usual ones that apply to cars--as well as laws about wearing helmets and not allowing more than one passenger, mostly these are disregarded. The fact is that Kampala has major traffic jams, and so if you take a minibus (known as a "taxi," not to be confused with a ...