Uganda, March 20 -- What is the difference between butter, cheese, margarine, mayonnaise, yoghurt, ice-cream? What is the Jop'adhola word for 'pitcher'? We return to this shortly.

As is wont with every Makerere University graduation season, debate was rife during this one of February 2024. And the convergence of debates was the number of graduates joining the labour market against the paucity of the jobs available in the current era of jobless growth, as Mzee argues is our case here. One trigger that attracted his attention was the chuckling remark by Mr Ofwono-Opondo, the Government spokesman in the Capital Gang edition of the graduation week. He was dismissive of a degree in Runyakitara. Yet, Mzee holds, nothing is farther from the tru...