Garden City Shopping Center, Kampala, Uganda

Garden City Shopping Center has a nice set of stores and a very good Indian restaurant at the top terrace.

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[fivequotes]

the setting seems ancient. lol no offense

[bumisworld]

with regards to white people, like every one else you get variety. The one problem i had with them is that their first assumtion is that your a mosquito/prostitute, or want something from them. So, its hard to get to know them as they often have their guards up. I think they shud be a bit open minded and yes of course there are mozies and prozies, but not all! many are educated/working people

[bumisworld]

whats all the fuss? gardn city is a standars shopping mall, with standard shops. Its just a shame it is 1 of 2 in the whole country that offers a bit of variety. Not a bad place, its a shame it has an aura of being for the well -off, its simply okay. Boda boda is nice tho/must try others next time

[TheMikana101]

oh i been there in that shopping center before! it was cool :D

[Kalydosos]

@dinkaDPB I agree with you. You can't escape white arrogance even in Africa!!!

[katesburkett]

I also met a very dear friend who managed one of the restaurants in the Garden City food court. If I too wanted no part in anything regarding that place, I would have missed out on a very fulfilling and dear friendship and I submit that this way of writing other people off out of bitterness is what is destroying Africa on almost every social front. Who needs love more than the arrogant and lonely who have forgotten true Life? Maybe something to think on for awhile?

[katesburkett]

Now if it is the lack of African experience that your post is in reference to, please know that I do not for a second wish for people to define Uganda with the image of Garden City. I for one lived in the bush 17 miles outside of Tororo in a little village called Chawolo for months. I drank the water when necessary, ate the posho and white ants (actually very tasty) and fell in love with more than twenty different people whom I now consider family.

[katesburkett]

You are very correct in saying that Garden City isn't very African and it does smack of American arrogance and consumerism. What is however African about that place is what you obviously took for granted. There were Africans in that place, which translated for me, an openness and willingness to engage with the folks around them (something practically lost here in America).

[katesburkett]

To dinkaDPB: First, my post was a purely sentimental one. If the only comments allowed by you here are social commentary, I must submit that we as people using Youtube-especially Africans, are more than just collectives of information and being right all the time. We are HUMAN. One great thing I learned in Africa was there is something higher than being right. Its being free. Free from bitterness, and free to forgive and free to enjoy the simple things (like cheese from Garden City). Y

[dinkaDPB]

@katesburkett there is nothing african about that place. i dont get why you chose this video to talk about something being different to america. this place attracts many of the rich white people . because they dont really mix with the poor blacks. This place was depressing, full of arrogant people with too much self-importance. You could think you're in america inside that place