Uganda, March 15 -- Uganda's middle class (not that it exists) pretends to understand certain things. If you look closely, those who have walked through law school share similar traits. The ability to run with one thing and impose it on every life scenario. To a lawyer, everything is a nail and only the hammer solves all. Since I plan to live long, I have decided to keep far away from lawyers and their bi-conversations. But let us save the space in this column for less useless things - Uganda's middle class.

You see, it does not take much to fake it in this country. Find something to run with. Then run with it well. Like Ugandan car drivers when they learn that the most important thing in a car is the engine. From the time they learn thi...