Dear friends and residents of Kampala ‘city’; we need to talk!

There are many strands to the tragic story of Kiteezi, the sleepy, stinky village that last week descended into infamy after a landslide buried many people. How many? No one really knows. At the time of writing 24 bodies had been recovered, but surely there must be more entombed in the detritus of our urban lives.

 Death is death, but not everyone dies the same. They had names and faces and stories, but the victims here have mostly been just statistics. There are few missing person posters on social media. They will be missed, but they also won’t be missed; nobody misses nobodies….