What is preventing Uganda from growing? Burying the dead

It is said that in Kenya when an ordinary person loses a relative they would store away the dead person until the weekend. It is also said that if you are a factory worker in Kenya and left your job during a week day to go for burial, do not bother to come back because you would have already been replaced. African culture has its wonderful experiences but also it has its not so wonderful experiences. The not so wonderful experiences act as constraints to business. burying the dead is one of them. I have a friend of mine who lived in the U.K and his father lived in Germany. We used to meet every January for almost 10 years. One time he told me he thought his father was dead and I asked him why. He said he did not receive a Christmas card from him! Such is the attitude to death in many developed countries contrary to what is in the developing countries. In Uganda to understand death, you must watch Bukedde TV. Our culture has immense respect for the dead and the need to attend burials. If a big man dies in this country say at the level of permanent secretary, you may have about 300 vehicles at the burial ceremony irrespective of the distance. This is a huge unproductive cost to the economy but on the other hand, culture demands that this be done. If you were a politician or anybody of substance, with some link to the dead person and you do not show up, you will be seen in bad light. It is not surprising that recently President Museveni, shared his frustration with investors over the too much time Ugandans lose mourning and burying the dead. Sometime in June at the Imperial Royale Hotel while addressing investors in the country, he said investors had to suffer the problem of wastage of time which was embedded in Ugandans culture. He gave examples of burials as one of the time wasters and called for changing attitudes of Ugandans. He said Ugandans were not taking up top jobs because of some of these cultures which made them inefficient. This contributes to my thinking that in Uganda business and industry is still a foreign concept. We yet have to appreciate it and give it its due value