POLS 3000 Lecture Notes - Allister Sparks, Yoweri Museveni, Jan Van Riebeeck
25 Jan 2013
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It has a population of about 35 million ppl. In the first two decades of independence it was ruled by two principal leaders, milton obote and idi amin. Since 1986, uganda has been ruled by yoweri museveni. It would be wrong to conclude that uganda is merely a dictatorship with an attractive but misleading fa ade. In fact, the country is much more democratic today than it was before the national resistance movement took power be said to be more democratic than uganda, though the former has. Few in either country would dispute president museveni"s contentions of superiority of no party democracy indeed, most would probably agree that. Uganda"s conception of democracy: popular democracy, parliamentary democracy, a decent standard of living. Africaner"s (white) see themselves as hard front end men and women who have carved out an existence in an extremely hostile land that not only the people but also the land. Equated their own existence with the biblical isrealites.
