uganda's president won the country in a war and he’s still using it to stay in power

how museveni’s past still shapes uganda’s politics, youth, and control

On November 30, Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, sat down with a group of young people on a youth-focused podcast and reached for a comparison he has relied on for decades. When he was 26, he said, he went to the bush and took up arms. Today’s youth, by contrast, seemed to him unserious, too focused on culture, trends, and online life rather than sacrifice.

Museveni on the Unstoppable Gen Z Podcast. Forty years after the war, the same story still runs the country.