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hh This page intentionally left blank WHAT IS AFRICA'S PROBLEM? Yoweri K. Museveni Edited by Elizabeth Kanyogonya Foreword by Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis Copyright 2000 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Museveni, Yoweri, 1944- What is Africa's problem? / Yoweri K. Museveni; edited by Eliza^e^ Kanyogonya ; foreword by Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere. p. cm. ISBN 0-8166-3277-4 (acid-free paper) — ISBN 0-8166-3278-2 (pbk : acid-free paper) 1. Africa — Politics and government — 1960- 2. Africa—li^tQry — \ 96,Ch 3.Uganda _politics and goverment_1979 4. Uganda -History- 1979 I. Kanyogonya, Elizabeth. II. Title. DT30.5 .M87 2000 320.9676 —dc21 0,0-008173 The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer, 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 3. Uganda—Politics and government—1979- 4,. Uganda—ftistpry— J979^ Contents Foreword Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere & xvii Map of Uganda Abbreviations xix Glossary xxi Key Political Events in Upnia xxiii Profile of President Ybweri Kaguta Museveni Elimb^ JKmy&gdny<k xxv K Ugandan Polities 1 Ouirs Is a itadamental Change 3 2 Th^ ^rtee of Bad Leadership 10 B Religion and Politics 16 4 Colonial versus Modern Law 19 5 Security Is the Key... 22 6 The State of the Nation in 1989 31 7 Why the Interim Period Was Extended 44 8 The Interim Balance Sheet 4f9 9 Where Is the Public Spirit in the Public Service? 59 10 Corruption Is a Cancer 71 11 Was It a Fundamental Change? 77 12 Building Uganda for the Future 88 II. Military Strategy in Uganda 13 Why We Fought a Protracted People's War 111 14 Who Is Winning the War? 124 15 The NRA and the People 130 16 How to Fight a Counterrevolutionary Insurgency 132 III. African Politics 17 What's Wrong with Africa? 143 18 Most of Africa Kept Quiet... 150 19 Self-Reliance Is the Way Ahead 154 20 Political Substance and Political Form 161 21 The Crisis of the State in Africa 166 IV. Africa in World Politics 22 Genuine Nonalignment 179 23 When Is Africa's Industrial Revolution? 188 24 Defending Our Common Heritage 197 25 The Economic Consequences of Coffee 208 26 Africa Needs Ideological and Economic Independence 214 27 Where Does the East-West Thaw Leave Africa? 223 28 The Need for North-South Cooperation 231 29 AIDS Is a Socioeconomic Disease 247 Appendix: The National Resistance Movement Ten-Point Program 257 This page intentionally left blank Foreword Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere Uganda became politically independent in October 1962; Yoweri K. Mu- seveni was sworn in as president of the country at the end of January 1986, after his National Resistance Army occupied Kampala. In the in- tervening period, six different men (Milton Obote on two separate oc- casions) had been sworn in as president. They included the infamous General Idi Amin, whose eight-year regime of mass murder, cruel and ruthless torture, economic destruction, and deliberately imposed mis- ery still leaves its shadow over the people of Uganda, years after he was overthrown. The politics, and the political turmoil, of any country are the exclu- sive business of the people of that nation unless and until they impinge directly on the territorial integrity of another country. Such an instance arose when Idi Amin's army invaded the undefended northwest border of Tanzania in October 1978, and he boasted about the occupation and speed of advance to the Kagera River. There can be—and indeed are—arguments about whether the United Nations or regional political associations should really allow dictators (however they may have obtained their power) to pursue with impunity policies of crass inhumanity as long as they confine their activities to the helpless victims in their own state. But until now that has been the internationally accepted interpretation of "non-interference in the in- ternal affairs of another sovereign state." It has allowed the Hitlers, the Salazars, the Francos, the Pol Pots, the Bokassas, and the Amins of this century to continue their murderous policies for years — sometimes ix
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