How the Liberator Became the Strongman: Museveni’s long slide from revolutionary promise to entrenched power

When President Yoweri Museveni first emerged on the African stage in the 1980s, Western capitals and many on the continent hailed him as part of a new breed of leaders. Like Paul Kagame in Rwanda, Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia, and Isaias Afwerki in Eritrea, Museveni was a soldier who had fought to dislodge chaotic, violent […]


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