ABSTRACT
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has held the key power position in Uganda for over 30 years from 1986, at first before a new constitution came to be in force in his country in 1995 and for over two decades. Museveni is indeed truly a ‘pre-eminent case’ among African presidents, indeed among post-founder African presidents. Museveni showed marked imagination in experimenting with what might be described as models of ‘open’ government. Museveni’s guerrilla involvement within the National Resistance Army took place in practice throughout the Milton Obote and Okello governments; the characteristics of the operation are described in detail in Museveni’s autobiography. Obote’s regime by had ceased to be liberal democratic; elections were indeed postponed to 1971. The first Obote government resulted in strong executive rule rather than in pluralistic government. Obote’s regime experienced almost immediately major difficulties both within the parliament and beyond.
