DELAY. INDOLENCE.COMFORT. Do you notice the similarity in these words?

The failure to move forward has been a dominant parasite to progress in Africa and in this article I am talking about Uganda. (spin that to politics if you may.) For over twenty years, I have lived to see my fellow Ugandans sit back and relax in that ‘arm chair of comfort’. Burying our heads into the sand and religiously backing the wrong tree.

Pope Francis visits Uganda after Pope Paul IV in 1969 and Pope John Paul in 1993, making Uganda the only African nation to have three Papal visits. With such a rich history in ‘Papal visits’ one would think we would be as prepared as a kid ready to leave boarding school for the holidays but no. We dived into a frantic attempt to patch pot holes, upgrade the Namugongo Marty’s Shrine and basically act like we have been told yesterday.

Is it culture that we act at the last moment? or are we always letting others shine as we look on to admire and live as we wish this or that would happen?

DELAY. INDOLENCE.COMFORT.  Three enemies that are gradually keeping us behind. When is Uganda going to excel  and live up to the PEARL OF AFRICA? (Okay am done being angry at my country)

Pope Francis is said by some to be the most conventional, simple and dearly loved Pope yet. Women, children, Men have anxiously waited to see the man of God. To get a blessing. To touch him. (appropriately FYI). To ask him for a prayer and witness a christian historical moment for Uganda!

The last-minute preparations have to STOP. Lets learn, get up and make things happen. Uganda needs to change from its old ways and move forward to a Uganda that works for all. (pan intended) To slightly quote Michael Jackson, it starts with the man in the mirror. You and I have to change, dream and not let our dreams die in day light.

Delaying that which should be done today doesn’t make tomorrow a better time to take action. It’s now or never and Brandy sung it right ‘almost doesn’t count.’ Regret doesn’t build but attempt makes progress. Failure teaches a lesson and persistence bares fruits of success.