The New Mayor of New York Is Now a Ugandan

By Mark Agaba

You people, the new Mayor of New York doesn’t even know what’s waiting for him. Ugandans have already claimed him as one of their own. They are calling him “Bro Mayor” and celebrating like they campaigned for him.

Very soon, the man will discover he has aunties from every district in Uganda. Auntie Brenda from Kawempe will post his photo with the caption, “We thank God for our own blood, the Mayor of New York City.” Yet that same woman has never even been near Entebbe Airport.

By next week, there will be a WhatsApp group called “Friends of the Mayor – Uganda Chapter,” complete with a treasurer and an admin who removes quiet members. CVs will start flying around with lines like, “Referees: Mayor of New York, my close bro, we grew up together in the diaspora.”

At kafundas, people will brag, “Me, I told him to run. I told him New York needs a Ugandan touch.”

And when he finally visits Uganda, everyone will show up, I mean the uncles, aunties, bloggers, pastors, even musicians claiming him as a cousin. Because one thing about Ugandans, we don’t wait for connection. We create it.