The motorcyclist’s mission, which he had duly decided to
accept, was to find me the elusive 1,000 shilling coin which has been in
circulation here in Uganda for two weeks but doesn’t seem to have found its way
into many pockets.
The new coin, worth about 25p, was minted to commemorate the
50th Independence Anniversary of Uganda. It is an attractive
two-tone gold and silver and circulates alongside the 1,000 shilling note, the country’s
most popular and grubbiest note.
So how are the good people of Kampala receiving the latest addition
to their currency? Our top team of investigative journalists from Victoria University took to the streets and found that just over a third of those
questioned didn’t even know the coin existed.
The rest had known about it, but only half of them had used
it and just a third had kept one mainly as a memento and didn’t intend spending
it.
Our team also had to secure a coin for themselves, a quest
that about half managed but sometimes not without an added ‘bonus’ of another
1,000 shillings to the provider.
So in just a couple of hours they made a story for
themselves. Using the basic press release from the Bank of Uganda they developed
a story that will resonate with most Ugandans. Along the way they talked to
more than 100 people, practised their interviewing skills and proved that my
mantra of ‘be cheerful, be confident’ really does work.
The media here does a good job of covering the basics of
politics, crime and breaking news but there’s precious little that involves the
reader and makes them feel like ‘this is for us’. In a few more years I hope
these folk will be showing how it’s done.
And what of Patrick and my 5,000 shilling note? I’m ashamed
to admit that I didn’t think he’d come back. But he did, complete with shiny
new coin and some change. I gave the spoils to reporter Olympia (above) who was struggling
to find her own.
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