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Thank you for the positive piece about Uganda and its President, Yoweri Museveni [WORLD, Sept. 1]. Who says nothing good can come out of Africa? At least, all African leaders are not crooks, thieves, criminals, looters of their countries' treasuries and incompetent and ignorant dictators. Africans can be proud of leaders like Museveni. But alas, Africa is still in bondage. An era of peace and prosperity will emerge only when African leaders realize that salvation for their countries lies in the hands of Africans, not Europeans and Americans. African leaders should fashion a political system of government that is most...
...concur with Museveni's statement, "Unless you say all the societies in the whole world are uniform, then you cannot say their political management must be uniform." First, feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and heal the sick. Then give them political liberties. It may be repulsive to Western civil libertarians, but as Museveni says, Africa is not the West. Fundamental rights can be given attention only when the socioeconomic and cultural diversity of a state has reached the right equilibrium. KIPKORIR KIRUI Dallas...
...Museveni's utopian dream is to have African states working together. He supports an all-Africa fighting force that could step in, instead of U.N. troops. He works tirelessly to build roads, air links and trade routes across central Africa. He wants to remove tariffs and legal barriers to regional trade. He envisions "political cooperation, security cooperation, cultural cooperation." African people are all linked, he says. "We are not going to change our borders; we are going to transcend them. Why not a United States of Africa...
That, in the end, is the 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...
MARGUERITE MICHAELS, our peripatetic New York bureau chief, first met Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni in 1989 when she was based in Nairobi, and knew even then that "he would one day be important beyond the borders of his country." Michaels has been to Kampala many times. On two return trips this year, her conviction hadn't changed, but the country had. The potholes were fewer, Kampala's skyline and night life were impressive, and the general air of shell shock was gone. "Here," she says, "is hope that is not short term...