Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Makerere v. UAS


Area
Makerere
UAS
Points

Natural setting

Attractive hilled city.  Features crazed boda-boda drivers, traffic jams involving wheelbarrows, storks, and AK-armed security.  Goats on the roadside.  Cows in the road.

Alaska. 

+1, UAS

Office

Window, cross-breeze.  Also, bars on the door, bars on the window, two padlocks and two deadbolts.  Has a 2002 HP desktop.

Essentially a broom closet.  Better internet, though.

+1, Makerere

Cuisine

Menu is the same every day.  Chapatti, matoke, rice, beans, greens, beef stew.  Service is immediate and friendly.  Mountain dew in glass bottles.  Has not yet made me sick.

Menu is the same every day.  Service is slow but friendly.  Beverages flavored with corn syrup.  Only occasionally makes me feel ill.

+1, Makerere

Companionship

No family.  Night-time companionship would primarily consist of prostitutes.   

Family, poodle who wants a tummy rub. 

+2, UAS

Politics

Hybrid regime, formerly a single party state.  Government is a guerilla movement that seized power.  Clientelism is widespread.   “President” sports a moustache.

Democracy.  Government is a guerilla movement that seized power.  Pork barrel politics are epidemic.  State legislators are hirsute.

Draw


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