Uganda, April 27 -- For my low-volume 'export' of millet and sorghum to the DR Congo, I have shifted my base to Kiburara (25km from the Uganda-DR Congo border). In most cases, my trading partners come all the way from the DR Congo to trade with me in Kiburara.

This has allowed me to spend lengthy periods in Kiburara (allowing me to participate in the Kiburara economy). As the son of a peasant farmer, the inclination is always to tend some crops. And that is where and how I have experienced the real Kiburara hitherto unknown to me.

Almost every young person in Kiburara with the muscle to labour smokes marijuana. Most of them cannot honour a simple arrangement of supplying labour for a fee. They want to be paid in advance before delivery ...