Norbert Mao is probably the wittiest Ugandan politician of our times. A collection of his anecdotes could fill a reasonably sized booklet.
Some fifteen years ago, Mao described Uganda's politics 'kuma nyoko'. This vernacular term is the crudest insult imaginable and I shall not translate it here, much at it could reasonably describe our politics. Recently when President Museveni found it necessary to use the terrible expression, he found an easy-to-understand English translation: 'your mother's something-something'. I shall use the short form of the translated expression - yomososo.
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