The history of Uganda is mostly the history of the decisions, indecisions, acts and omissions of three men; Museveni, Obote and Amin. It is obvious that but for Obote's naivety and need to martial up against Muteesa II, Amin wouldn't have happened, unleashing the '66 crisis on us
The '66 Crisis, leads to the '67 Republican Constitution, that is so reviled by Buganda, the largest street parties ever thrown in that polity were in January of '71 when Amin overthrew Obote. Amin, would be the monster that would justify the shenanigans of an impressionable...
and impressive Museveni, who had all excuse and a blank slate to experiment in all manner of violence and peace making , some may say, in his grand goal to seize power and shape black Africa in his image. Amin, singlehandedly wrought economic destruction to this Uganda that...
his '72 expulsion of Asians holding citizenship of Britain still has effects that are with us. We have really just started, 44 years after he was deposed, gotten to per capita income levels (with inflation accounted for) of 1977! We regressed so badly, that Rwanda was a larger...
economy by 1980!
Amin, also saw us get colour Television long before the rest of most countries, bought prime real estate for Uganda, had Uganda gain notoriety encapsulated in his ill advised help to the PLFP-EO and RZ when they hijacked that Air France A300 pax jet and flew it
Amin, also saw us get colour Television long before the rest of most countries, bought prime real estate for Uganda, had Uganda gain notoriety encapsulated in his ill advised help to the PLFP-EO and RZ when they hijacked that Air France A300 pax jet and flew it
to Entebbe, that ultimately led to the daring and myth making victory by Israel's Sayeret Matkal on 4th July, 1976. It was quickly downhill from here. Deranged, he attacked Kagera in Tanzania. The inferiorly equipped, but more cohesive TPDF, together with Museveni's FRONASA and
Oyite-Ojok's UNLA chased Amin away in April 1979.
Museveni's force had led an aborted charge on Mbarara in 1972. The details are captured excellently by Andrew Rice's book The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not.
Amin, made Museveni's rise inevitable.
Museveni's force had led an aborted charge on Mbarara in 1972. The details are captured excellently by Andrew Rice's book The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not.
Amin, made Museveni's rise inevitable.
And, boy, has he been a revelation!
First of all, of our 61 years of independence, he has led for 37 incredible years! Brave and (weird?) decisions include the 1993 restoration of traditional monarchies. The full-scale adoption of SAPs by IMF in the late 80s.
First of all, of our 61 years of independence, he has led for 37 incredible years! Brave and (weird?) decisions include the 1993 restoration of traditional monarchies. The full-scale adoption of SAPs by IMF in the late 80s.
The disastrous, but necessary currency reform of '88. Scrapping cost sharing in hospitals. The ill-fated privatisation drive that led to the collapse of the country's icons; UCB, Uganda Airlines, Uganda Railways, Uganda Hotels, etc, & the awakening of the entrepreneurial spirit
of a people who now had to contend with a precarity of life second to none without ANY social safety net worth its name.
The support to the RPA/F for 4 straight years. The 1995 Constitution. Fighting everything and everyone. Lakwena. Otai. Kony. Matsanga. Aggrey Owori. Moses Ali.
The support to the RPA/F for 4 straight years. The 1995 Constitution. Fighting everything and everyone. Lakwena. Otai. Kony. Matsanga. Aggrey Owori. Moses Ali.
Ali Bamuze. Jamil Mukulu. Bashir. Mobutu. Habyarimana. Laurent Kabila.
The bond breaking wars of Kisangani that were a blessing in disguise to breaking the myths of invincibility that the UPDF had started preening around with and get on to the hard and ongoing work of actually
The bond breaking wars of Kisangani that were a blessing in disguise to breaking the myths of invincibility that the UPDF had started preening around with and get on to the hard and ongoing work of actually
building a true army.
UPE in 1997. MTN UGANDA'S license in 1998. The liberalisation of the radio broadcasting stations long before most of Africa caught up. The 1999 rebirth of the East African Community.
The sudden realisation that privatising everything was not a good idea.
UPE in 1997. MTN UGANDA'S license in 1998. The liberalisation of the radio broadcasting stations long before most of Africa caught up. The 1999 rebirth of the East African Community.
The sudden realisation that privatising everything was not a good idea.
The UMEME mistake. The RIFT VALLEY RAILWAYS debacle. The realisation that Coffee, Cotton, Copper and Tobacco, Tea and Tourism, weren't some colonial stuff, but a well thought out blueprint to make Uganda middle Africa's most successful country with an enviable middle class in the
early 60s.
Scrapping Term Limits. Scrapping the age limit. Dropping Kategaya.
The IDP Camps question. West Nile not on the national grid for reasons best known to no one. Karamoja finally answered?
The largest population is born under one leader.
Scrapping Term Limits. Scrapping the age limit. Dropping Kategaya.
The IDP Camps question. West Nile not on the national grid for reasons best known to no one. Karamoja finally answered?
The largest population is born under one leader.
For sheer scale of long term decisions with 2nd and 3rd order effects, Museveni is the most consequential Ugandan since 1894.
Somalia. DRC, again. He has a tendency to get back to unfinished business as Amin learnt in '79 after the '72 Simba Barracks Attack debacle. South Sudan in 2013. UPDF's finest hour where Angels dared not tread. Equatorial Guinea, propping up an ailing fellow Old Big Man.
Where haven't we been?
Will he deliver EACOP and the refinery? Museveni's visioning is way grander than his actioning. All his victories cost many lives and money. Like an old warhorse whispered, Kisangani disabused him, once and for all, of the notion that he is some kind of
Will he deliver EACOP and the refinery? Museveni's visioning is way grander than his actioning. All his victories cost many lives and money. Like an old warhorse whispered, Kisangani disabused him, once and for all, of the notion that he is some kind of
Master of War. Sure, the old warhorse continued, he is a leader of men. He will paint you a grand vista of what's needed. He also offers excellent, almost unrivalled post mortems of all military defeats and why not following his unworkable ideas is what led to such defeat, and...
extraordinarily offers similar post mortem of victory & why following his ideas is what led to such victory, even though it is hard to in a strictly military science sense, point out how what he proferred was actionable.
Either way, one for the ages. If not to revile, to revere.
Either way, one for the ages. If not to revile, to revere.
*Does Not Forget
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