ABSTRACT
On July 28, Uganda did something distinctly different—but something that could be a model of the kinds of steps needed when countries are in delicate transition. Other Africans are already uneasy about a third term in Uganda because of the practice of many African leaders to hang onto power indefinitely. After the fall of Idi Amin in 1979, in whose regime at least 800,000 Ugandans were brutally killed, a remarkable man named Yoweri Museveni, a powerful intellectual who had also fought Amin in the guerrilla war, engaged upon a remarkable experiment. No one knows what President Museveni will do next; he would not comment about the many rumors that he would now change the Constitution in order to run for a third term. The leaders of the industrialized world met in Gleneagles, Scotland, and the overwhelming message of this G-8 meeting was Africa, Africa, Africa.
