PART 1: When ‘Museveni,’ ‘Bush’ were feared; only to be whispered
Yoweri Museveni in his living quarters at Mobile Brigade headquarters in July 1984. Mugisha Muntu, now an opposition leader, is beside him, hiding his face to protect his family. PHOTO | WILLIAM PIKE
William Pike, an idealistic young former ‘hippie’, born and raised in colonial Tanganyika, returns to East Africa to rediscover his childhood roots. He finds, to his dismay, that the optimism of independence has dissolved into ‘shabbiness and decline.’
Inspired to play a part in reviving the lost dreams of liberty, Pike—now a veteran journalist living in Kenya—travels to a Uganda already in the throes of a guerilla war against President Milton Obote, who is supported by the British.
