"New-Breed" Leadership, Conflict, and Reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

A Sociopolitical Biography of Uganda's Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

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ID5245341
AuthorsJoseph Oloka-Onyango
Year2004
Volume50
Issue3
Pages29-52
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrica Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/at.2004.0028
OpenAlexW4235004436
LanguageEN
Citations received16

Although now a largely discredited idea, the notion that the period from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s generated a new breed of African leadership captured popular imagination, official discourse, and academic writing. Leaders like Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia, Isias Aferworki in Eritrea, and Paul Kagame in Rwanda were young, dynamic, and willing to break discredited predecessors' taboos. Among this bretheren, no personality better exemplified the "new" breed than Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of Uganda. When the National Resistance Army/Movement (NRA/M) assumed power in the wake of Uganda's second civil war in the 1980s, the leadership of the Movement very quickly assumed an almost Guevaran posture in the discourse on African democratization and recovery. Nearly two decades later, Museveni still dominates Uganda's popular and intellectual imagination, but in many respects is beginning to look more and more like a scion of the old breed

Biography · Biology · Breed · Democracy · Democratization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Law

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