Social and political stability need more local skin in the economy

Last week this column argued that antipathy towards immigrants, although low but growing, is fuelled, in the main, by rising indigenous economic frustration, not by a sudden erosion of Uganda’s famous hospitality.

Consider this: Someone flies into Kampala from a foreign country and says they want to set up a factory. It could be something as mundane as furniture or as esoteric as green hydrogen or super sanitisers that kill all viruses. You get the drift; the more complicated, the better.