sorry;- but Obama...!

Oops! On 17th September, I vowed – well, promised that I’d post something here every week. I think I just broke that vow/promise. I’m going to attempt to forge an excuse. And the excuse is;- Obama won! Seriously. It’s two weeks later and Ugandans are still celebrating! Here are some of the victory remarks I’ve been hearing over and over.

• Banange u guys this poverty of Uganda! Let’s pack our things and go to America. Obama has real won and has not yet been assassinated!
• Eh! Obama real won! Have they changed the name from whitehouse to blackhouse?
• Woo! Obama! No more long lines at the American Embassy – let’s go and tell them that it is now our office and we want our visas!
• My boss has not yet paid me. Let me just go to America and live my African dream.
• Of course I love Kenyan people! They are my brothers and sisters! Tell those guys my brother is the president and they should give me that visa.
• - Crys: “Eh, Solomon, money is scarce in Uganda, why don’t you become our president?”- Solomon: “Ha, By the way I would have helped you broke Ugandans and contested to be your president but since Obama is now already there, he can handle things for us.”
• 5 years ago, I won an argument with my friends saying America would never have a black president in the next 100 years.
• I knew one day America would have a black president, but I didn’t think he would be black, as in African.
• I still want Hillary. This is supposed to be the age for women! But any way its ok, casta (as long as) Obama won.
• Is it true that Kenya is now an American state?

So the excuse is I’ve spent these weeks laughing my head off and trying to bring people back to reality; haven’t been able to do much else. If u can buy that.