Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Uganda's leader is the brains and strategist of the entire region's new thinking. His odd coupling of outsize dreams and practical solutions has transformed his own blood-soaked nation into a model of economic advancement and stability, though hardly an American-style democracy. He believes the same African-style ideology can work just as well in the troubled lands of Congo, Rwanda and Sudan. But it is far from certain that what Museveni did in Uganda can be repeated elsewhere. As Museveni's confreres take power in the region--Kabila now rules Congo, guerrilla companion Paul Kagame...
Museveni himself seems to have few doubts. "Now Africa can start acting together," he says. "It is the most important time since the end of colonialism." Men he calls "African patriots" have come to power with "common aims, not just past personal connections." They are alike in their antipathy to corruption, their disgust with the old ways, their outrage at how badly their countries were run. And they all seem more concerned with how to promote social, economic and political progress than their predecessors ever were. Says a senior U.S. diplomat: "In comparison to what went before, they look damn...
...Museveni has thought deeply about how Africa can develop, and his view does not neatly fit the Western mold. At its most fundamental, Museveni's ideology is what he calls "Bantuphone," a term he coined loosely meaning made in Africa, not inherited from some colonial master. He wants Africans to look after their own destiny as they pursue modernization, to suit their systems to local conditions. "It's high time," he told TIME, "that white people left Africa alone and started minding their own business." Likewise Africans must "liberate themselves from themselves," divesting their lands of the postcolonial generation...
...implemented free markets, controlled inflation and cut the civil service. A middle class has emerged, hopeless state-owned enterprises have been privatized, agricultural productivity is soaring, roads crisscross the country. A devil for investment in local enterprise, Museveni charmed Egyptian businessmen into manufacturing muteete-grass toothpaste and urged South African moneymen to start a banana-juice factory. If prosperity has barely begun to reach the man in the street, there is strong domestic and international confidence in Uganda's economic future...
...Still smarting from Atlanta's last-minute theft of the centennial Olympiad, Athens is once again the top contender ? closely followed by its centuries-old rival, Rome. But the announcement last week that South African President Nelson Mandela would personally attend the announcement might provide a hot outsider tip: Either Mandela is risking an humiliating photo op when Cape Town loses ? or he knows something the smart money doesn...