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President Clinton is hosting a high profile meeting in New York to try to highlight the world most pressing problems and seek to solve them. The list of attendees looks like a who is who in the world of business, diplomacy, politics and academia. African problems are high on the agenda and the most influential leaders in Africa have been invited to the conference. Guess who does and doesnot make it to the list; Kagame makes it , Thabo Mbeki as well as Obasanjo are also there. But imagine if this conference was held just two years ago; the first African leader on the list would have been Museveni. Moreover many East and central African leaders had to travel from their countries to Entebbe Uganda to have a hand shake with Clinton when he visited Africa in 1998. Today thats history and the leaders in the group that is a thorn to Museveni are dinning with Clinton and having numerous interviews in the American media as Museveni looks on in desbelief. Museveni had the best opportunity to make himself a statesman but he has squandered it because of the greed for power. Just few years ago people were not afraid to put him in the Club of the Mandelas and Nyereres ; but see what has happened to him. No leader now wants to associate with him- he is now treated more like a political leper. Ladies and Gentlemen, who bewitched Uganda? How come we do'nt seem to produce anything good. Yesterday I was listening to Kagame on one of the many American media houses where he was giving an interview and for once I felt I should be a Munyarwanda not a Ugandan I have always been proud to be. The guy delivered a cool and calculated analysis and prognosis of the problems of Rwanda and I thought; its as well he has replaced Museveni on the list of the "new breed" ( I hate this phrase because it bewitches) of leaders in Africa. But on further reflection I thought; but we cannot migrate to Rwanda or sit down and dispair- lets continue the struggle ; maybe the true Ugandan hero may emerge from the ashes of the now deciminated and disgraced Museveni. Keep on the struggle. See Clintons guests at: http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/home.nsf/pt_bio |
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