SUNDAYS HAVE CHANGED: It is Paris in Kampala and the nouveau bourgeoisie are under formation. Restaurants are competing on who organises the best brunch concept. It is now a contest of brunches and the quality of crowds they pull. As you buy the next attire, keep in mind that it must pass the brunch test. Can it make it to a brunch? Kampala indeed, Mutonzi yasalawo. Welcome the new Sunday service, writes Ian Ortega.
Sunday in Uganda was always the day when people repented of their sins and called the week, a week. On this day, we would raise our hands in the air, chant out lines such as ‘I wanna be tried by fire, purified…’ All one had to do was make it to Church, and then stay in all afternoon. Finally, one would deal with the Sunday evening blues as they dreaded he start of another week. But that is completely a story of the past.DM bodytext: First came Blankets and Wine, which opened Ugandans to an active Sunday evening. No one knew we could party into Sunday night and still make it to Monday morning in one piece. But we did it, thanks to the painkillers and stolen naps in the office car park. The festivals also proved to us that we could do a two or three-day party. In that mix, we had the marathons. Sunday mornings were for marathons. It was easier to control traffic then, again, a new way to rethink the occasions of Sunday.
Enters Brunch
Then brunch happened and blew off in ways no one had anticipated. You could say, that for those that partied through Saturday night, Sunday morning was the time one had to grab some recovery soup. But the brunch concept came and grew its own tentacles, its own branches. Everyone could pick something out of a brunch.
For those that sought another excuse to leave home on a Sunday morning, brunch was the perfect excuse. For those that sought another occasion to connect and show up in society, brunch became that concept. One just had to know which brunch; for it seems, every brunch appealed to a different audience, different purpose and delivered different outcomes.
The fashionistas
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