African Political Analysis Think-Tank Vignettes

Buganda Is A Post-Colonial Example From Africa Re-purposing The Westphalian Model Approaches To Productivity, Profit And Care for the Planet Tom Rogers Muyunga-Mukasa   The Baganda are obsessively communal. This is so because to be communal is the opiate representing safety, preservation, dignity, humanity and perseverance in the face of dangers, cataclysms and diseases.   The communal spirit has leveraged influencer mechanisms which are relied upon to share information, knowledge, skills and iteration. Safety,  preservation, dignity, humanity and perseverance  can only be achieved when dignity, unity and a sound ecology are the goals.  The Baganda revitalize robustness through providing a script to all humanity in which they point out that without dignity, unity and a sound ecology all humans face a morbid present.  They have within their structures, systems, myths, folklore and legends shown the inevitability of suffering and the futility of...

  A friend asked jokingly, "what is so memorable about Africa Day?"   I am aware it is a day observed on the 25th of May.  On that day Africans pay their regards to the goals of uniting and use of a collective voice to rally around taking good care of themselves, the continent as well as celebrate the general nurturing nature or motherhood of Africa. It is a day to set aside time and consciousness to ponder about the beauty of Africa through spiritual, cultural, political and social means.  On this day, Africans celebrate the African Freedom Day, a day to "...mark each year the onward progress of the liberation movement, and to symbolize the determination of the people of Africa to free themselves from foreign domination and exploitation,” according to the AU reports. It is on this day that all Africans appreciate the physical nature of Africa in form of land, waterbodies, valleys, mountains, hills, biodiversity, resources and the people. Africa Da...

The entire world has roots in Africa but in using the term 'Wananchi,' Museveni is identifying the roles Africans have to play to ensure that Africa is a fully sustainable and an ecologically sound continent.  There are those with the tasks to look after and care for Africa. After all, too many cooks spoil the broth. Source: Google Museveni is one such African leader one can give as an example of a reminder-leader. In using the term 'Wananchi,' the people are reminded of the role they play as the lever in order for democracy, security, and development to prevail in Africa.  Western colonialism had disempowered the African people through the 4 D's that is,  dehumanizing, debasing, denigrating and demonizing.  The tools to regain dignity or the means to produce dignity are people the land, liberty, life, language. The historian Joe Kearns calls them the 4 L's.  Nationalism in Africa is the effort to reclaim the 4 L's. I want to add a fifth L which...

  Museveni Can Pull A Hat Trick Finally   Tom Muyunga-Mukasa   The first 20 years after independence derailed Uganda.  Unlike many of the African countries which were taking the reigns of control after independence, Uganda did not undergo the kind of weaning preparation that linked it to nationalistic, economic, cultural, political and social progression.  After 35 years, Museveni has scored on the security front, next come democracy and governance.  Uganda is fast tracking toward the middle-income nation goal and this has been possible through attracting investors and government commitment toward industrialization.  The state structures are not distant from the common references, conceptions, recollections, sufferings, claims, hopes, sentiments and symbols. Protected speech in Uganda comes in many shades. Ugandan evangelicals easily adopt such titles like Apostle, Prophet hacking back to Moses or Jesus and a God complex fraught with theatricals and it...

  Museveni’s Goodwill Is A Return on Investment   Tom Muyunga-Mukasa   From 1966 to 1985, Uganda’s economy suffered and so did the business cycles in all sectors e.g. education, commerce, infrastructure maintenance and service delivery with nationalistic, democracy and governance repercussions.  The governments that followed in succession up to 1986 absconded on the duty to serve the social needs of Ugandans. It was easier to provide visibility to the army, police, local government security entities and not economic entities.  Culture remained the enduring fall back entity that connected Ugandans geographically, spiritually and ethnically. But this put the cultural dimension of Ugandans as contrary to the goals of the existing governments then.  The 35-year NRM rule returned a recognition of the many entities that define the survival of Uganda. The years between 1986 to 2021 are a securitized hegemony that gives Uganda a breath of life and a very go...

Museveni A Pro Africa Financial and Security Stability   Tom Muyunga-Mukasa   Museveni is a Sun-Tzuian military strategist who mixes the doctrines from the Copenhagen Controversy and the Manchester Schools’ state-craft manuals. He has in the process had to come up with a choreographed pattern called the Museveni neo-realism which for the past 35 years has set all moving parts in Uganda toward a middle-income state goal. Galvanized and empowered to participate in oversight roles and strengthened their belief in state structures, the people are now aware of what value-for-money outcomes look like. They see the manufacturing sector making economic returns. Many come from or have settled in the regions where reinstated parastatals and other government corporations that were scrapped in the 1990s under the WTO/IMF/World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) are now run better and are lifting Ugandans out of the no-value-added raw-material producer captivity by provid...

Museveni is Good for Uganda, Africa and The World   Tom Muyunga-Mukasa   Museveni has redefined presidential longevity and has presented Uganda as a case study against which to critique effective political, economic and social benchmarks.  He took power in 1986 and the recent swearing-in was on May 11 th 2021. He was declared the winner of the January 2020 elections at 58% by the Electoral Commission beating his closest contender Mr. Kyagulanyi Robert who had secured 35%. His slogan “securing the future,” rides on the cusp of a continuously rising GDP putting Uganda on track to a middle-income economy by 2027.  A quintessential Pan-African Activist President, Museveni’s 35-year reign has consolidated Uganda as an increasingly independent African nation and secular state whose religion is security. Uganda disintegrates when any form of opposition (seen as tyranny) desecrates this security. People don’t take the security for granted but in their self-determina...