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...Revolutionary Party received support from the Soviet Union, China and Cuba (Che Guevara once spent several months training with them), the obscure group never amounted to more than a nuisance. But the experience did enable Kabila to forge a valuable connection with another African guerrilla bush fighter, Yoweri Museveni, who is now the President of Uganda. That friendship would one day be critically important...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, by contrast, embraces the word. "A little neglect would not be bad," he says. " The more orphaned we are, the better for Africa. We will have to rely on ourselves. We have to go back to the year 1500, where we left off building an economy integrated in itself, able to produce its own food, its own tools, its own weapons...
...seems a plausible, even indispensable vision: Africans reunited at last with themselves, with their cultures and governments, brought home after centuries of terrible alienation. But then Museveni goes on, "Today 50 out of 100 Ugandans can't read or write. If 90 out of 100 can read and write and start to be guided by science and rationality, that's the day of liberation...
Credit for all this goes to Museveni, 45, the self-described freedom fighter whose National Resistance Army triumphantly entered an exhausted Kampala after five years of guerrilla war against a series of brief governments that succeeded Amin's. Once a firebrand student of economics and politics at Tanzania's University of Dar es Salaam, Museveni was regarded with some trepidation in Western capitals when he emerged from the bush. Now the assessment is almost unanimously positive. Museveni, says a U.S. diplomat in Kampala, has been "a very effective leader. He has subdued tribal rebels in the north, instituted a sort...
...Museveni has been building his own kind of democracy. Local affairs are run by "resistance councils." Last February voters were permitted to cast ballots for added seats to the National Resistance Council, Uganda's renamed parliament. But Museveni's National Resistance Movement is the only legal political organization, and the unelected President last week had the N.R.C. extend his term of office five years...