Besigye’s decision to break with the president put him in intense and prolonged personal danger.
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Museveni came to power with the sense that violence is critical to politics, and especially critical to liberation politics.
Political policing in Uganda’s electoral landscape sustains the struggle for power.
From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.
Ogwal’s experiences as an opposition politician are emblematic of the challenges faced by political opponents of the regime in Uganda.
The founding story of Museveni’s government remains persuasive for a great many people 37 years later.
At independence, adults were reading decolonial classics - but children were reading Enid Blyton. A generation of unsung women writers changed that.
The Ugandan militant remains on the run despite a US$5 million bounty on his head for war crimes committed between 1987 and 2006.
Despite its Imperial origins, the Commonwealth has a strong radical tradition. If it wants to remain relevant to Africa in the 21st Century, that radicalism needs to be rediscovered.
The relationship between the country’s security forces and the civilian population has always been uneasy.
Despite continual threats, the media in Uganda continues to tackle controversial issues and break big stories of corruption and abuse of power.
As a young radical in the 1980s, Museveni publicly scorned African rulers who clung to power. Now, after 30 years in office, he is clearly clinging pretty hard himself.
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