{UAH} DOES IT REALLY MATTER IF MUSEVENI IS A UGANDAN OR NOT?
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There has been a lot of debate recently on Museveni's real nationality, but, personally, i'm not bothered. I'm only bothered by his poor delivery as a president. In many countries (national laws) the place of birth does not define someone's nationality. The nationality of the parents is decisive.Sometimes one is interested in a person's legal nationality, at other times in one's ethnic background.Both/either can be expected to exert influences on one's nature, character and behavior, especially while in power.
I believe a lot of people discuss Museveni's background because he has not lived to their expectations. Otherwise, a lot of great leaders had 'fake' nationalities but ended up making their countries better. For example, not only was Stalin Georgian(not Russian), but his nickname -- Koba -- was taken from a character in a novel he read (in his teens, perhaps)."Koba" is a Georgian resistance fighter against Russian rule. That background didnt stop Stalin from furthering Russian nationalism instead of communist internationalism in the USSR and the Eastern Block.A number of similarly nationalist politicians were actually from minorities.Hitler wasn't really from a minority as such but he was from the smaller of two German speaking nations and put himself in charge of all of them. Napoleon was Corsican, not French and his island had just been bought by France a year after his birth.All three of them preached nationalism in their host countries, all three were conquerers and tyrants, but they cannot be pigeonholed as only that and nothing more. This is something rarely found in Uganda's Museveni which has led to a series of questions about his real nationality.
Napoleon is a mixed bag,though, He was a man of great civil accomplishment and many ideas that were modern and progressive in his time.His biographers probably still debate how much his military campaigns were to defend France from the European monarchies, and how much they were for his personal ambition.
Secondly, I have spoken to a few Ugandans abroad that are bitter that they are made to pay $450 for dual citizenship, but nobody made Banyarwanda pay anything when they were constitutionally made citizens in 1995. And this is something that leads people to draw a lot of conclusions(right or wrong).
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*Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba*
Stalk my blog at: http://semuwemba.com/
"My journey is long and my preparation is so little, and weakness has gripped me and death is chasing me!"
-- There has been a lot of debate recently on Museveni's real nationality, but, personally, i'm not bothered. I'm only bothered by his poor delivery as a president. In many countries (national laws) the place of birth does not define someone's nationality. The nationality of the parents is decisive.Sometimes one is interested in a person's legal nationality, at other times in one's ethnic background.Both/either can be expected to exert influences on one's nature, character and behavior, especially while in power.
I believe a lot of people discuss Museveni's background because he has not lived to their expectations. Otherwise, a lot of great leaders had 'fake' nationalities but ended up making their countries better. For example, not only was Stalin Georgian(not Russian), but his nickname -- Koba -- was taken from a character in a novel he read (in his teens, perhaps)."Koba" is a Georgian resistance fighter against Russian rule. That background didnt stop Stalin from furthering Russian nationalism instead of communist internationalism in the USSR and the Eastern Block.A number of similarly nationalist politicians were actually from minorities.Hitler wasn't really from a minority as such but he was from the smaller of two German speaking nations and put himself in charge of all of them. Napoleon was Corsican, not French and his island had just been bought by France a year after his birth.All three of them preached nationalism in their host countries, all three were conquerers and tyrants, but they cannot be pigeonholed as only that and nothing more. This is something rarely found in Uganda's Museveni which has led to a series of questions about his real nationality.
Napoleon is a mixed bag,though, He was a man of great civil accomplishment and many ideas that were modern and progressive in his time.His biographers probably still debate how much his military campaigns were to defend France from the European monarchies, and how much they were for his personal ambition.
Secondly, I have spoken to a few Ugandans abroad that are bitter that they are made to pay $450 for dual citizenship, but nobody made Banyarwanda pay anything when they were constitutionally made citizens in 1995. And this is something that leads people to draw a lot of conclusions(right or wrong).
--
*Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba*
Stalk my blog at: http://semuwemba.com/
"My journey is long and my preparation is so little, and weakness has gripped me and death is chasing me!"
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