Like many African leaders, Yoweri Museveni preached democracy even as he was seizing power through the barrel of a gun. In his stirring inaugural speech of January 1986, three days after his National Resistance Movement stormed Kampala, Uganda’s new leader spoke eloquently about the cycle of coup and counter-coup despoiling Africa’s political landscape. “We have had one group getting rid of another one, only for it to turn out to be worse than the group it displaced,” he said. “The first point in our programme is the restoration of democracy.”
同许多非洲领导人一样，约韦里•穆塞韦尼(Yoweri Museveni)即便在通过枪杆子夺得政权之时还在宣扬民主。1986年1月，他率领的全国抵抗运动组织(National Resistance Movement)攻占了坎帕拉，3天后，这位乌干达新领导人在就职演说中发表了滔滔雄辩，谈到政变与反政变的恶性循环败坏非洲的政治生态。“我们经历过一个统治集团赶跑另一个统治集团，结果却是迎来了比之前更糟糕的统治集团，”他说，“我们计划的首要着力点是恢复民主制度。”