Market stall: Get a shirt made
In every market across the country you will see banks of Ugandans crowded into small stalls or shops hunched over sawing machines franticly pedalling away at the manually powered and usually very ancient sawing machines. These women (it’s mainly women) are busy churning out school uniforms for kids as well elaborate African dresses made from exotic printed batiks that quite often are imported from The DRC. Very occasionally as a customer they get a Muzungu tourist with bad taste in shirts wanting to get a shirt run up in a piece of material that had caught his eye. Well that’s how it happened with me. A piece of material did catch my eye so I inquired about the price of a shirt made from the finest vivid polyester. Evelyn the lovely lady who owned the stall in Gulu market told me that it would cost 10,000 for the material and 5,000 for the making of the shirt. I was still a bit undecided...
