A short trip to the land of all foods 🍽️💨

The recently launched United Boda Boda Riders Cooperative Union (UBBRCU) - a group which did not exist a month ago and almost no one outside government knew was coming - has now been designated in charge of bodas for the country.

How Bangkok registers and regulates boda bodas:

(East Africa: It's Possible)

Most boda boda apps don't put the Presidents face on their visors.

The new Union boda app in Uganda, purportedly by and for boda boda riders, uses an image of a motorcycle fit for southeast Asia or a Uganda of 20 years ago

Nairobi by boda 🏍️💨

Having fun coming up with testimonies for the Boda Board Game.

In 1915 W.J. Simpson, called for the establishment of segregated residential areas for “Europeans, Asiatics and Africans," using the excuse of protecting Europeans from disease, creating Kampala as it exists today.

There's nothing new here 👇.

Takes a second of looking at, but look for where one bar stands above others. That shows where a particular reason - say, time - is much more commonly cited by Banakampala for their modal choice.

I.e. if there was a comparably fast mode to bodas, people would leave them.

Not as much was read in 2024 as hoped for. But what was read was by and large excellent.

A bookcover for "Uganda's Katikiro in England".

Prepping for holiday barbecues in Kenya

Tried a new cultural experience (the golf club)

Holiday greetings from us here at Lubyanza

My current transport books collection. Any suggestions? Particularly for Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

To read 🤓

globalinitiative.net/analysis/mot...

To anyone trying to understand what it means when someone says that bodas run Kampala:

Petrol prices and the US dollar over the past two decades in Uganda.