Q. What is Kabale? A. It is Cold

 

One thing we think we all know about Kabale is that it is cold. But one thing we don’t know is how cold. 

Kabale is cold, fam. To say, as we in Kampala do when we deploy our unique vocabulary acrobatics, that it is “cold as in cold” is to mock the Kabale temperature.  Or the lack of it. You can't measure Kabale cold in degrees. There are no degrees Celsius in Kabale.

This is how cold Kabale is. Cold as the look your ex gave you. You remember that night when your ex found out, and she could not believe you had done it again after she had forgiven you countless times, after she had believed all your empty promises there you were, at it again, and she looked at you, and she caught her breath just before she could scream, and she didn’t scream, she didn’t fight, she didn’t insult you, she didn’t curse, she just stopped for a minute, took the breath back in, said, “You know what?” then turned around and walked away, and you never saw her again, you never heard from her again, number blocked, accounts muted and unfollowed, she just left you, didn’t even say what it was you knew, she just walked?

That look in her eyes. Yeah. She had finally realised that that your betrayal and lies had done their worst and there was nothing left for her to feel for you. Not anger, not hatred, certainly not love, just nothing, and she could finally just walk away. Remember that look? How cold was that look?

As cold as Kabale. There we go. Now we are together. Let us proceed. So, there is this animal called a Crayfish.