Swedish National Day @ the Swedish Embassadors residence!

Me, the Swedish Embassador, Tobias, the embassadors wife.

We were invite to the Swedish Embassadors residence in Kololo, on one of the most impressive Hills of Kampala, where all the diplomats live. Well at the residence we also got to know the Chinese, Russian, Japanese ambassadors with their wifes.

It was kinda interesting to speak to the Chinese embassador on the topic of the Chinese resource hunt in Africa. He said "I dont understand that people get suspicious whenever they hear that Chinese companies are moving into a developing African nation, they dont care when the Swedish companies do the same!" I just replied "Angola, Kongo, Niger, Chad, Sudan and Tanzania all have something that the Chinese government wants. Natural Resources ! Its not for the solidarity of helping the African nations to get rid of poverty, aids, economical boosting, that the Chinese govt are in Africa!" The Chinese embassador just changed the topic by saying "Hmm...well, where in China was it that you lived?"

The embassadors residence in Kololo, Kampala.

After mingling with the embassadors we took the opportunity to make som good connections with some high UN-officials regarding our research in the area of entrepreneurship.

That resulted in a couple of incredible meetings this week with some UN-officials, European commission members in rural economical development, Sida, Ugandan parlamentmembers, Ugandan businessmen that have lived and studied in Sweden for a long time. The network we've created here is unreal! Not in a 100 years will you be able to get in touch with so many high officals in such a short time. Only in Africa!