Very much enjoyed that. I have been to uganda twice & love the country. I have travelled through Africa & its by far my favourite. Kampala is a great city, i never ever felt scared or threatened there even when walking alone at night through the city. Wonderful people, i must return soon.
Thanks for the Great Craft Brother Willie, this Video is another awesome one depicting how our Kampala gets busy in the night. You are right to say Uganda would be much far in development and modernization if we switched to Industrialization than selling cheap low value products imported from Asia. It pains me a lot when i think about the fact that Uganda as a country still imports niddles and Crocs from China yet our Parliament is busy giving out Cars worth 700m ugx to retired Legislators who already have cars, funny thing is that the cars are going to be driven on roads with potholes as wide as kids swimming pools. Otherwise, Willie your work in putting together these videos is always appreciated.
You describe a fundamental problem in Africa...many people don't understand that Asia is flooding their country with cheap products and destroying their own industry. With personal initiative and cheap loans, an industry free from corruption could develop, but that will never happen and the West and especially China know that exactly... what a tragedy.
I like your insight, and I agree with what you’re saying. My uneducated opinion on the industrialization of Africa as a whole is a great concept, but I think commercial agriculture would be more profitable, and sustainable for the continent as a whole..
I miss Kampala, so much, I studied and worked for 7 years in kampala, great place, wonderful city, i actually i felt home more than my own country. I will be back with Millions$ to invest.
Let's be honest and not fail to admit the truth to ourselves: this area of Kampala shown in this video is chaotic, dirty, and overcrowded. Poor sanitary conditions and lawless traffic are everywhere. I really don't see any meaningful public works. Come on!… People walk on garbage, cars drive over it. 😞😷 This type of environment will not provide or support an acceptable quality of life for its citizens. The hard-working Ugandans deserve better than that. Maybe my expectations of Kampala were too high.
You right to say we have move a way from selling raw materials and start processing why we produce cause we have alot of food amazing weather and soil anything can grow here in Uganda
This is amazing! In my country, from 6-7pm in West Africa, everyone is almost at home. The only business open are those from the local communities. I am considering to buy a property in Uganda and settle down there. I don't know what type of business would be better fit for new comers
You are right, Willie, that manufacturing and exporting the goods produced has always been the gateway to leaving the middle-income level, which Uganda is approaching, in order to become a first-rate economy. For example, the Asian countries with economies that were on par with Uganda in the 1960s or below it, have followed the same script. Taiwan with a far more advanced manufacturing economy today was on par with Uganda then; Malaya (now Malaysia), Singapore and South Korea then less developed than Uganda have all by far surpassed it. It all depends on good leadership or precisely GOOD GOVERNANCE, who make the decisions in the country. The lack of GOOD GOVERNANCE is the most intractable problem we are facing and an impediment to our progress in Africa since independence in the 1960s. It is a broad term encompassing 8 principles, the topmost of which is ACCOUNTABILITY to the citizens of the country, and of which it is the least understood by the people entrusted with leadership in Africa today. The means and resources at our disposal will not amount to anything until we have achieved GOOD GOVERNANCE. Therefore, the African countries like my native Uganda are neither rich nor are they poor. They are simply badly governed low-income countries.
You are absolutely correct. Beautifully said! I have seen the video of the minister with the untold sums of shillings stored in his home. Sheer madness without accountability to the people. The love for the people and the country is missing.
@@peggystoutemorin4529 Good to know, thanks. There isn't a single African country lacking the means and resources to prosper. Indeed, individual Africans and their families may have prospered since independence, however, it takes organisation, planning, good policies well executed and so on to uplift millions of people in any country. That is where GOOD GOVERNANCE comes in. Sadly, our so-called leaders in the majority of African countries are self-serving, despots and autocrats, opposed to GOOD GOVERNANCE and accountable to no one. As long as this status quo prevails, there will never be progress anywhere on the African continent, regardless of the abundant means and resources at our disposal.
@@peggystoutemorin4529 True, but no matter what, benefiting from the "unsurpassed mineral wealth" you have cited requires good policies, well thought out and executed by our African leadership, for the benefit of the entire country and not a handful of autocrats and dictators pausing as leaders. Failure to do so, Africa will never "be the head" but will continue to be "the tail of this world" for years to come.
Industrialization is very important and that's why kenya is more developed then Uganda and also Ugandan Government needs to stop giving investors tax exemptions and investors have to be vetted before start their investments here cause some tend to lie the investment authority that they are going to create industries and are given free land after sometime you find them running the same businesses Ugandans are running and also employing their families mostly Indians and Chineses
Hello, I want to come to live 1-2 months in Kampala, it seems wonderful. I searched online for Uganda video and I found your channel. Do you think it is safe for the a white person to walk around the city in every hour ? Or does it depend on the area?
interesting vdo asante sana Brotha Willie D & videographer. much I could say about what was presented. westernized Afrika, to me, is not a pretty sight. “Come out of her…” Afrika. I’ll just leave it at that peace and love
Bro, its your channel, i like content about places Ill never go, BUT WAIT,THERES MORE! Can you consider stop using the tag line"SHOCKING" in video titoes? Just saying. Thats a click bait term. Your content is good, it shows things I will never havevto contend with, and i am realt intriqued about my "other people over there", but Ive seen NOTHING on ANY of your videos that "shock" me. Its their country, their norms, not ours. so please consider not over emphasing titles. I for one stay away from videos like that, because nine times out of ten, Im left wondering;" What was the SHOCK facter?" Stay safe over there, it seems all of Africa is fighting them selves.👍🏿
A high-value information video. Why not lobby a few NGO's to support a few businesses to produce goods now imported from Asia on a five-year development scheme while also getting a few initiatives started from age five onward to convince kids to avoid littering and scold their folks. See what the results are five years out? Might be a game-changing blueprint. Hell, no matter what the obstacles, surely it can be done on a try-see basis for five years.
Question - why do what seems to be the vast majority of your Uganda-related videos have “Shocking:” in the title of the video? What’s so shocking about their content?,
The problem in Uganda and with the Uganda government is that they give taxes holiday to Chinese and indians, yet u find these people who call themselves investor selling same merchandise like ugandans who pay taxes. Government should change this policy. There is too much business freedoms in Uganda but indirectly affecting the economy
or. they could come to my country and stay at a nice hotel ,3 meals a day of course . But don't forget to throw away your passport and say you were a little bit scared in whatever country you decide is home
At 12min 50 sec: one man kicks anothers rear end and takes off, at the stall to the right…the narrator just walks past talking about economics and modernization…(it could be a joke between friends though).
Interesting comments about industrialization and the failure to promote it by governments and NGOs. I couldn’t agree more. It will happen one day but maybe not in my lifetime (68).
Developing industrially would be a great benefit to the city and country as a whole. Sadly, western NGO's such as the Global Environmental Facility and many others are more interested in selling projects that don't work to trap nations in debt. Without these parasites increasingly stealing the wealth of nations and restricting access to energy under the guise of solving manufactured and non existent crises, the lives of so many disadvantaged Africans could be much improved.
