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By Morrison Rwakakamba – Artiste and Pan African investor Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam, mostly known as Akon arrived in Uganda to engage Uganda’s chief investment promoter President Yoweri Museveni with among others plans to establish a futuristic Pan-African smart city in Uganda.
What followed was a frenzy of pessimism underlined with a cancel culture narrative that seems to stick – that the government babysits foreign investors at the expense of domestic investors! This is not based on any iota of truth.
The most cited incentive is the proposed public land allocation to Akon (One Square Mile) to establish a city that is expected to drive the imagination for the future of cities, creating jobs and stimulating enterprise.