The gateway to African economic revival in a place once famous only for a hijacking

From: The Spectator | Date: October 21, 2006| Author: BERESFORD, LUCY | Copyright information

'We men don't want to wear condoms, we want the West to find a cure.' This dilemma, faced by HIV counsellors at the Mildmay Centre near Entebbe, mirrors that experienced by those hoping to help Uganda financially. Mukasa, a handler at the chimpanzee sanctuary on Ngamba Island, 45 minutes from Entebbe by speedboat, gives me the analogy: the chimps there are hand-reared orphans. Five times a day food for them is tossed over the fence. A Pavlovian response has developed: they come whooping thro...