http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/2011/02/03/ugandas-museveni-at-25-still-fit/ African business, politics and lifestyle Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/2011/02/03/ugandas-museveni-at-25-still-fit/comment-page-1/#comment-9454 tomaszakf Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:45:31 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/africanews/?p=4791#comment-9454 I don’t subscribe to the principle of a benevolent dictator because it runs contrary to all of the principles, upon which democracy was founded. I suppose this moral dilemma is made somewhat easier by the fact that Museveni’s track record isn’t perfect. In addition, simply because you liberate a country, it does not give you free reign for the following 25 years. This is a reoccurring sentiment across the continent (Paul Kagame in Rwanda, dos Santos in Angola, etc…). People tend to think: ‘well this is as good as democracy gets in Africa, so that’ll do’. Lets no settle for second best, Africa deserves better. I don’t subscribe to the principle of a benevolent dictator because it runs contrary to all of the principles, upon which democracy was founded. I suppose this moral dilemma is made somewhat easier by the fact that Museveni’s track record isn’t perfect. In addition, simply because you liberate a country, it does not give you free reign for the following 25 years. This is a reoccurring sentiment across the continent (Paul Kagame in Rwanda, dos Santos in Angola, etc…). People tend to think: ‘well this is as good as democracy gets in Africa, so that’ll do’. Lets no settle for second best, Africa deserves better.

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