Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Uganda Monitor
Published on 2026-09-05 05:13:00
I always find it difficult to convince friends that the Democratic Republic of Congo (or at least Mobutu’s Zaire was) is more socially organised than Uganda.
When President Idi Amin’s economic war devastated the country, my part of Uganda socially and economically switched to Zaire. We had an opportunity to learn a lot from Zaire.
Zaire, now DR Congo, is linguistically divided into two: Swahili (east) and Lingala (west). For the east, “zegebe” is myash/posterior behind orb? For the Lingala speakers of western DRC, zegebe is lokota (butt, wash, etc).
In Mobutu’s Zaire,…
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