Cotilda Inapo finds the funny in growing up, motherhood and surviving adulthood

What the report says

Cotilda Inapo used her second comedy special of the year, Let Me Cook, to turn everyday struggles into a stand-up set at the National Theatre in Kampala on Friday night, according to Sqoop Uganda. The article describes the performance as a loose, story-driven show built around Inapo’s experiences of adulthood, motherhood and managing the pressures of money, relationships and responsibility.

Sqoop Uganda reported that Inapo, widely known in Uganda’s comedy scene as a leading comic, leaned on chatty storytelling rather than rapid-fire punchlines. Her routines touched on fine dining, wasted food, childhood poverty, raising a son as a single mother and the awkward advice women receive about parenting. The piece says she also drew humor from memories of learning to ride a bicycle and from moving into a more affluent neighborhood, where even the price of a tomato became a way to discuss class differences in Kampala.

The performance mattered, the article suggests, because it connected personal experience to wider social realities many audience members would recognize, including poverty, family expectations and the effort to appear successful while still feeling uncertain. The publisher framed the show as an example of comedy that finds humor in vulnerability rather than in polished certainty. More broadly, this reflects a common trend in contemporary stand-up, where comedians use personal life as the main source of material.