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Lukoma recited a poem entitled "Congo," inspired by Professor of History Leroy Vail's course, Historical Studies A-21: "Modern Africa from...
...African strongman and kleptocrat whose 32-year rule of Zaire finally ended last May; of prostate cancer; in Rabat, Morocco. In the cold war theater that was Africa, Mobutu profitably played the anticommunist, earning an ally in the U.S. and seizing power in what was then the Belgian Congo in a 1965 coup. He ordered the nation to discard Western dress in the name of African authenticity and touted nationalization and other economic reforms. But he spent the following decades looting his resource-rich country, leaving it bankrupt and impoverished...
...Africans. That is why Museveni invited himself this month to Kinshasa, capital of neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, which was Zaire until a few months ago. He was worried that Laurent Kabila, the rebel he helped to the country's presidency, was not making quick enough progress in restoring the ruined country. The meeting had all the ceremony of a summit, but it was really an opportunity for Museveni to give his friend some discreet but blunt advice. "They must start to move here," said Museveni afterward. "People expect to see things happening. Kabila wants to help his people...
...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 is the authority to be reckoned with in Rwanda, old schoolmate John Garang is gaining...
...heart of Museveni's message. "We are building Afrocentric, not Eurocentric, countries," he says, a continent where Africans deal with Africans. But the fragility of these ideas is still painfully evident even to Museveni. He stood at a hotel window in Kinshasa looking across the Congo river to Brazzaville, capital of the other country called the Congo. A prosperous, thriving nation just three months ago, that Congo has fallen back into mindless civil war, and as the latest cease-fire was broken, Museveni could see the bright red tracers of bullets arcing across the otherwise darkened city. "Clowns," he muttered...