TB or not TB

Overhead lights are off, the Japanese lantern is on, and my "Reminisce" iTunes playlist is on in the background in an effort to lull a restless roommate to sleep. I recently purchased "Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda" while browsing through the African Studies section in the Student Book Store. I feel like I'm in a Gulu frenzy, trying to find out everything and anything about the Acholi history and people.

Here's something I found while browsing for some African poetry that is fitting for my trip this summer:

White theatres
overflow with the drama:
TO BE OR NOT TO BE.

Black townships
are drained by the drama:
TB OR NOT TB.

- Sandile Dikeni

Oh, and marinate on this for a bit: In Uganda, the physician to patient/population ratio is 1:13,000 (taken from WHO 2004 statistics). Just to give you something to compare that number to - according to Wikipedia (if you trust it), there are just a little over 13,000 undergraduate students enrolled here at UNC-Chapel Hill. Unbelievable.