What took Museveni, the pan-African, so long?

Op-Ed: What did the Imperialists at the time of the founding of ‘The Movement” want, viz., what the Movement founders wanted?

During a speech by Gen. Museveni at the recently concluded NAM/G77 in Kampala, he used the words I love (but advise that you don’t use) when referring to Pan Africa’s biggest enemy of ideas, the Colonial and Neocolonial Imperialist IDIOTS. The speech has since become a popular online sound bite among Pan-Africans.

Most Museveni’s speeches of today and the past are. In fact, one main tip for a new blogger who wants to attain a pan-African following is to begin by sharing Museveni content.

Another virally loved clip is when the same Pan African, once rumored to be an American puppet master, an “askari of the West in Africa,”  elaborates on why his country, under his leadership, refused American or foreign military bases to be situated inside Uganda. In his speech, since I write to laymen, he simply said, “They wanted us to sign an agreement that enables the protection of foreign criminals in Africa, but they could not allow us to do the same for Africans in America.”

“That is Neocolonial Imperialist Slave Master and Exploitative Coercive White Supremacist IDIOCY.”. I have added in the last part, assuming I was the one who had penned his Excellency’s speech, and I am sure he would have loved it today, not a decade or two ago.

Museveni has all of a sudden metamorphosed into the new Sankara, Cabral, New York, Nkrumah, Fidel Castro, and Mandela of today. There is no pan-African thinker today who is more famous and much loved than General Museveni of Uganda. Julius Malema may be famous, but his apathy for the LGBTI community and his criticism of Uganda’s anti-homosexuality laws succeeded in creating many haters with his category of Pan Africanism, as most Pan Africans derive their basic thinking from Afro-Socialist traditional African concepts of societies that are totally homophobic in all aspects.

Though Willam Samoei Ruto, the new President of Kenya, had erred and angered Pan Africans with his “King Charles Worship,”  Julius Malema lost more believers in Kenya by attacking Ruto aimlessly and carelessly without listening to the motives of Ruto’s behavior.

All Julius Malema had to do was visit Ruto in Kenya and seek a one-on-one narrative. Julius Malema, though a Beneficial Pan African, often misuses his stardom to openly criticize his comrades, who may actually be real Pan Africans, while playing the “Amin Card,” as described by Thabo Mbeki of the ANC.

Mbeki describes a meeting of all world leaders in Kampala, whereby Idi Amin, the Chairman of the O.A.U., decided to have a meeting and say different things from what he told the same leaders in private shortly after the main conference.

If Malema thinks an enemy can be defeated by speaking the truth in public all the time, then he is not a guerrilla tactician. He also doesn’t understand the strength of his enemies, who, to defeat them, must always be diverted, confused, impressed, duped, and even worshipped sometimes, just like Ruto did Charles.

Why would Malema think Ruto has forgotten the Mau Mau and whatever the British did to the Kenyans? One is a wise, cunning, elusive surviving warrior, while another is a brave but careless suicidal warrior. It must be noted that the enemies that Pan Africans fight have always been and are still superior in all dimensions to us Africans. Someone must tell Malema this.

Which brings the main question from critics of the New Practical Pan African Hero, Yoweri Museveni? What took him so long?

The answer lies in the above JULIUS MALEMA stupidity and Kamikaze behavior in the presence of a significantly stronger adversary than you. A guerrilla warrior needs time, action, and even lies to survive and win. And so are Museveni and most Pan-Africans. We are not cowards.

We wear ties. Not because we love to, but because we must reach where the enemy has advantages. It is neither that Gen. Museveni is reacting to sanctions from the West nor is it a matter of change of ideology or inconsistency.

It is the same Museveni but operating at the right time. It’s indeed true that what President Moi thought of the NRA was a fact. Daniel Arap Moi was the ‘perfect Western capitalist puppet”, but he thought the NRA were Afro-Socialist communist expansionists.  Yes, the NRA is an expansionist Afro-Imperialist ideology, as were Nyerereism, Nkurumaism, Cabralism, and Castroism. It’s why Che Guevara was in Africa. To enable Africans to unite by expanding their outreach from Cape Town to Alexandria.

It’s just that both the West and Pan-Africans are competing to colonize Africa, but for different purposes that benefit either of their people, Africans or the West. Imperialism is, therefore, human nature.

Another section of Pan Africans, especially the class that still believes in the ‘American/European type of democracy,” often criticizes and asks, Why is MUSEVENI not a Democrat? (Why doesn’t he go away and set a leadership example?).

The answer lies in the vision and mission of all Pan-Africans. Possibly the critic lives in Egypt, which is content to be called the Arab Republic, but a typical Pan-African is not the leader of an African country. This is what many misunderstand about Museveni and did about Muammar Gaddafi.

Gadaffi struggled to elaborate that his role was not the same as that of a President of America, in vain. Below, I will use Museveni to explain.

Museveni is not an absolute leader of Uganda, as most people who don’t understand Uganda think. It’s indeed true that he is the President with all executive powers, as would be understood by the West, but that is not how he governs. Instead, Gen. Museveni works with ‘epochs and groups of independent leaders of various diversities” to implement every phase of Uganda’s growth and development.

General Museveni’s management and leadership style is that of a “retired guide,”  but few seem to realize this. Uganda is literally governed by different people, independent of Gen. Museveni’s direct role as Commander in Chief or Head of Executive.

That is why it’s difficult for a foreigner to comprehend his role in Uganda. Recently, he delegated some, if not most, of the UPDF command to the Army Commander, sometimes called Chief of Staff. To claim Museveni should “go away” implies that he is a blocker of something, which cannot be proven to be the case in Uganda.

Uganda has laws, institutions, a prime minister who can hire and fire and controls the whole budget, and a group of technical ministers. They simply report to Gen. Museveni for guidance, as one would consult an experienced doctor, scientist, or scholar.

His role in Uganda aside, Pan Africans do not retire from active activism and even war as long as Africa is not yet united. A good pan-African is therefore one who does not retire but dies in the battle or is on-going to liberate Africa from several aspects that we resist.

Gen. Museveni is therefore still active and will be active the same way until the vision set out pre-Indendence is attained. What is Vladimir Putin in Russia? Is he the president, prime minister, or figurehead? Didn’t he retire already decades ago?? Same. Putin is also an afro-Socialist expansionist, it must be remembered, and he shares the same thinking as the NRA of 1980.

General Museveni and any leader of the NRA/M do not therefore first need to retire for another person to lead or serve their roles. African revolutionaries do not retire. You just join them and begin working for what you want.

I don’t know any citizen who had a unique beneficial idea that only he or she knew, who  took it to Gen. Museveni and was not made the leader and implementer of the same. So who is in charge, if not the Ugandan?. That’s Uganda with Museveni.

A Ugandan does not need to be President of Uganda to do what a President of Uganda does. All she or he needs is a working concept, which Gen. Museveni will always support.

Ham Kiggundu’s Palace is more flamboyant than the State House, but is there a problem?

Sometimes the noun “President” is misunderstood when used in Africa, but it must be known that an elder in Africa will always remain and die an elder and leader of that society in every capacity they can.

African old men do not retire from anything they do. They just train the rest to do what they do.

Yoweri Museveni in this context is training thousands to millions of Ugandans to behave, act, and even do what he does today, when he is still around, and even after. The Afro-Socialist Transition has no clearly defined borders.

From the above narrations and descriptions of a sustainable AfroSocialist system and how she transitions (develops), you can observe that there are things African leaders of today must do, not because they want to, but because we are in the middle of a complicated pan-African liberation struggle that needs complex, ambiguous behavior to survive—behavior that the enemy may never comprehend, lest you become Patrice Lumumba, etc. Sometimes, a Pan African must smile when angry and bark aimlessly even when happy. That’s the nature of war, according to Sun Tzu’s “Art of War.” It’s about deception.

The author is Prof. Jago Minyang Makombo Asiimwe, the Global Political Strategist, Africa Continental Unity Party (ACUP), the First Intercontinental African Unity Political Party.

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