The House that Museveni Built will catapult you, almost instantly, beyond a linear philosophical inquisition, into a powerful appreciation for the genius of hindsight. All through, it is brimming with that delectable blend of incisive content and punchy delivery that defies any attempt to be put down or skimmed through.
Armed with a dossier holding an unprecedented wealth of records painstakingly
curated to account for the major contexts and game-changing events spawning
over 15 years from 2005, PAUL BUSHARIZI
leans into Uganda’s premium legacy debate with much gusto.
Like a storytelling maestro, he orchestrates the rebirth and placement
of individual, seemingly unconnected pieces of the recent past into an
articulate narrative that unravels the central themes of the Uganda experience,
spotlighting the consistent presence of President Yoweri Museveni’s signature.
"The book is relentless in stripping bare the layers of ignorance, misinformation and outright deception insulating the past from accounting for the present...
When you learn of the quiet trauma of a nation trying to tear itself
apart to flee its own identity; or you are immersed in the profound valour of a
people, desperately spinning wheels in the death clutch of economic predators yet
set on escaping the cold abyss of poverty; or you are made to see the rabid fears
of an inner circle, inexorably trapped between untold riches and ruthless power
games; or you get to see how messages of hope and helplessness have simultaneously
burgeoned into monsters of hyper paranoia; it is never without credible
attribution. You are subliminally invited to connect the dots in a myriad of
ways. The haze is lifted, questions become answers, answers morph into
questions. You read again.
The articles are brilliantly sequenced to provide surprising insights
into the man, the machinery and the mentality that have sedated a restless
people for more than 35 years and built a mammoth chicken - egg contest between a master strategist and an
overwrought project. Did Museveni make this Uganda or did this Uganda make
Museveni?
"It takes unbelievable courage to blow away the dust of time like a scene-of-crime detective, and reveal the fingerprints of the main protagonist without being judgemental....
The House that
Museveni Built is a masterpiece that will strongly contend as the
preeminent reference for any credible study of Uganda’s first 2 decades of the
21st century and that uncharted subject - Musevenism. Yes, because the feet on the same body cannot walk away
from each other.
The book is available HERE
