Like many African leaders, Yoweri Museveni preached democracy even as he was seizing power through the barrel of a gun. In his stirring inaugural speech of January 1986, three days after his National Resistance Movement stormed Kampala, Uganda’s new leader spoke eloquently about the cycle of coup and counter-coup despoiling Africa’s political landscape. “We have had one group getting rid of another one, only for it to turn out to be worse than the group it displaced,” he said. “The first point in our programme is the restoration of democracy.”
同許多非洲領導人一樣，約韋里?穆塞韋尼(Yoweri Museveni)即便在通過槍桿子奪得政權之時還在宣揚民主。1986年1月，他率領的全國抵抗運動組織(National Resistance Movement)攻占了坎帕拉，3天后，這位烏干達新領導人在就職演說中發表了滔滔雄辯，談到政變與反政變的惡性循環敗壞非洲的政治生態。“我們經歷過一個統治集團趕跑另一個統治集團，結果卻是迎來了比之前更糟糕的統治集團，”他說，“我們計劃的首要著力點是恢復民主制度。”