A Yellow Cab driven by a tiny African man named Bale pulled up to the curb and the Air Port Taxi authorities pointed me to his taxi. I threw my stuff in the back seat and we headed out to the hotel. I was in Canada this week. It’s a long ride to town and I had once again climbed into the cab of a man who had lived to see his country change from a calm pastoral British protectorate to a boiling horrible dictatorship.
His didn’t happen in six years. His happened in four months.
“Where you from?”
“Uganda.”
“How long have you been here?”
In a thick accent he answered, “about 24 years.” “What brought you here?”  Read the rest



#1 by Caveat Emptor - September 30th, 2006 at 05:30
It looks like the Democracy movement in Bahgdad is going swimingly. And they said it couldn’t happen here.