Aboneka Writes

Colonialism in Africa was really rooted in the social, political and economic aspects of African people and it is evident that today people associate themselves with the effect of colonialism like foreign languages, culture, and political system among others. Colonialism has taken centre in all aspects of African life and it is very hard to start drilling it out of the lives of Africans. My stand therefore is that the efforts to decolonize Africa will do more harm than good. Economic Aspects Before colonialism, Africans used to trade amongst themselves (barter trade), the intracastrine trade, the use of cowrie shells as medium of exchange among others. Much as these were African concepts and mechanisms to do things, they were not efficient enough. For example trade did not follow any protocol and there was a lot cheating, unfair bargains, and lack of transparency among others. There were no banks, no financial institutions, credit institutions and the economy was not boosting. Exa

I took time this afternoon to do a little investigative study on the rampant and seemingly never ceasing Iron-hiting (Katayimbwa) on the boda boda men and below are my findings: METHODOLOGY: Interactions with 5 Boda Boda men: SCOPE: Kampala...Muyenga, Namuwongo, Nakasero, Wandeya and Clock tower) FINDINGS 1.The hit men are always people who know the victim very well normally those working at the same stage. 2. The Katayimbwa scheme is always a planned series of activities which involves a number of people and not only the hit man/passenger 3. The hit man/Woman will always insist they take them to an area with minimum traffic and pedestrian movement 4. The hit man/woman will always create a scenario of delay when they get to the so called "destination" e.g they will on purpose pass on bigger notes to the boda man so as he looks for the change.... 5. The hit man/woman who earlier informed his colleagues that he is on the way with victim now signals to their colleagues