ABSTRACT
The idea of Kampala as a degenerate city is not new: it lingers on in historical traces that are still etched into the urban landscape. As a boundary zone and filtration point for the global flows of economic and cultural capitals. Kampala expanded according to urban planning principles derived from Britain, but given a particular colonial twist. The planning of new towns in colonial Uganda attempted to impose structure onto the process of development. Before World War II, the relatively low numbers of migrants to the city kept such suspicions at a low intensity. The greater the levels of rural-urban migration became, and the more people settled in the city, the greater the intensity of this paradox in the practices of everyday life. Just on from them may be a group of money changers, a clutch of young men with bundles of bank notes who make their money by breaking down their customer's larger notes into smaller bills for commission.
