In the book Nationalism and New States in Africa (1984), Prof Ali Mazrui and Michael Tidy refer to Uganda’s second president, Dr Apollo Milton Obote, as a great man who made great mistakes. When Uganda got independence from Britain in 1962, the people wanted to kiss Prime Minister Obote.
Dr Obote was their blue-eyed boy, recently returned from his domicile in Kenya. He led them to independence ahead of his former hosts, with himself as Prime Minister. The Kabaka of Buganda was his President.