Last of the green patches

Spending a weekend in Kampala the other day I still marvel at the speed with which sky scrapers pop up all over the place, The even the Hilton is finally showing its ‘head”, but I have to spare a thought for Windsor crescent.

This the little patch of green is found at the junction of Acacia Avenue and Kiira Road at Kisementi. And therein lies the problem, there is now a huge building site that will soon emerge as a petrol station and …………a ‘childrens play park’.

The green cover that kampala used to have is fast disappearing: Bat valley, Lugogo, kitante green belt. The list is endless. We are well on our way to becoming a bonafide concrete jungle, Lagos is not pretty, so why on earth do we want to look like it?