One of the saddest personalities of Uganda at 50 in 2012 was its head of state. Yoweri Museveni was the reflection of that Medieval leader governing a Medieval society, arriving at Kololo Airstrip in a $1 million armoured Mercedes, driving past a crowd of Ugandans who barely had breakfast that morning and no longer able to recognise the African Big Man caricature he has now become.
The very caricature he himself denounced that January day in 1986 when he took his oath of office.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/ThoughtIdeas/Uganda-in-2012--A-broken--medieval--retarded-society/-/689844/1653724/-/item/1/-/9tp800z/-/index.html
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