Silk Oceans’ ambience brings new meaning to the word “club�

Other interesting but eye-catching features were two wall hangings each with a set of typical African necklaces. I thought these were on sale and naively asked as much, expecting to get “definitely� as an answer. To my surprise, they were wall decorations.

The club also has exotic furniture - comfy settees placed around glass coffee tables and bar stools, some red and others black, placed interchangeably. The sofas are smooth black leather with visible neat white thread finishing and some smaller ones in orange and yellow shades. All these have snug throw cushions in bright colours. Mujongola says this branch of the Silk clubs is the smallest though most expensive and accommodates a maximum of 300 patrons.

It being daytime, ordinary fluorescent tubes were the only lighting, but at night, the small lights etched in the black roof and the overhanging state-of-the-art silver light bulbs coolly light up the place.

The club has a massage room where tired or drunk revellers can relax before hitting the road for home. With thick heavy-set black leather chairs and a plasma screen on the wall, an entrant does not miss out on the song playing in the club as the body gets the relieving massage. Demonstrating how it works, Mujongola sat in the chair.

“There’s always an attendant at the entrance who gives out dummy coins to insert in here,� he explains pointing at a narrow opening on the arm rest. While leaning back and with your legs inserted and held in by leather flaps, the massage chair will start to work. Entrance into the massage room is free with one coin for a five minute massage. At most, one is allowed 15 minutes for three coins.

The bathrooms are clean, and in the ladies is a plasma screen as well. In total I counted about 20 plasma screens of the same size placed all around the club.

Our nkuba kyeyos will definitely have a new place to be amazed, enjoy and boast about come December when they flock here for Christmas holidays.