GG Lubega

Patrick Lubega rides a boda-boda through Kampala traffic that visitors film for their families, and has customised the bike twice, once for speed, once, after his mother intervened, for brakes. He offers the cube almost before the dice have settled from the opening roll, sometimes before either player has made a second move, on the theory that hesitation is the only real risk in the game. Backgammon happens on a board balanced across two helmets, at the stage between fares. Lively, fit and entirely unbothered by a bad roll, he offers and answers a cube as fast as he takes a gap in traffic, and outside the structured events he is always chasing a cash game or a seat in a running chouette.