New Left Review I/156, March-April 1986
Victoria Brittain
The Liberation of Kampala
The liberation of Uganda by what its protagonists called ‘a protracted people’s war’ took exactly five years. Such a change of government under armed popular pressure rather than by a coup d’etat has never before been achieved in Africa. Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Army (nra) was trained in the bush war to a level of discipline and organization which completely outclassed the corrupt government army still nominally reliant on a British Ministry of Defence training team twenty years after independence. Repercussions on other repressive neocolonial regimes in the region—notably Kenya—are inevitable in the medium if not the short term.
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