Uganda, Feb. 26 -- So, Luzira Maximum Security Prison will be moving from the east of Kampala to the provinces of Kyaggwe; about 30 Kms away. That an investor intends to build a state-of-the-art hotel and modern conference facility in its place and transfer plus build a new prison at his cost.

There is something quite befuddling about Uganda's urban infrastructural development trajectory. More often than not, there is always an investor in the mix. S(he) is often a little-known foreign entity who comes up with an idea that is too good to be ignored. It makes everyone wonder where we have been and what we the locals have been up to all this time. This is how it must have sounded on August 3, 1858. On this historic day a Briton named John ...