Don't serve us the tired line on Migingo Island anymore

Migingo island on August 9, 2018. [Photo/Caleb Kingwara]

In the 1970s through to the early 1980s, the turnover rate of presidents in Uganda was so high; the presidency was practically a joke. That changed when one young Yoweri Museveni deposed President Milton Obote in 1986 and took charge of Uganda.

Ten years later, Museveni subjected himself to a democratic vote and won the presidency; thereafter becoming a politician in the true sense of the word. While appearing on an interview with the Time magazine in 1989, Museveni pointed out he preferred to be called a ‘freedom fighter’ than a politician because politicians in Africa, he averred, did not have a good reputation.