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Crikey. Can’t believe I came all the way to Kampala to find this.
Postscript
Always one for a challenge, I returned to Owino a week later.
Besides being told, “You look like Gaddafi” (some Ugandans had a strange sense of humour), I was shocked at some of the items on sale at Owino, mainly:
*A Valley Girl top (hadn’t seen this Australian label for years)
* A Tar-get top
* An ACDC shirt. In fact, several of them.
* An Australian Cricket Board (ACB) jersey.
* An Australian cricket backpack with the Milo logo on it.
* A Foster’s backpack.
* But my favourite was, wait for it… A ripped Fitness First backpack.
Fitness First, as one of my friends had said several years ago, was like the McDonalds of the Australian fitness industry. They were everywhere, and so were their backpacks. I knew scores of Aussies who had signed up at Fitness First (possibly to only get the free backpack that came with the membership) at one time or another, many giving up soon after.
But to send your Fitness First backpack to Uganda because you didn’t want it….?
I was absolutely horrified. Or were Australians just thinking of Africa? And moreover, did Africa really need Fitness First?
Where were the Ugandan getting these things from? Had someone at Tweed City shopping centre done a collection for Africa? It was like an outside, muddy version of a St Vinnies op shop back home.
Needless to say, I went home empty-handed. Again.
But also needless to say, Dad was gonna have a field day at Owino market in Kampala.
