In 1986, Uganda had roughly 1,900km of paved roads. In 2024, 40 years later, Uganda counted some 20,000km of paved roads, a 10-fold achievement.
The road maintenance backlog in Kampala, the capital, is 2,100km of paved roads. In 1986, Uganda exported coffee worth $400 million (worth $1.126 billion in today’s dollars).
Even though the economy generally had collapsed, the machinery of…