The Ugandan people (at least our family) love to sing, dance, and play scrabble.   Every evening we would sit either on the front or back porch on woven mats and take turns singing songs.  The songs that the American volunteers ended-up singing would Backstreet Boys or Disney while our Ugandan little sisters would say poems and songs that they had memorized in school.  One song in particular that they did very well was about AIDS/HIV and how it was killing the people.   In the school system of Uganda the children learn mainly through memorization.  The teacher will write something on the board or say something aloud and the students will repeat it until it is memorized.  This happens all the way from nursery to secondary.