{UAH} IS PM NABANJJA BEING UNDERESTIMATED BY OTHERS IN NRM

IS PM NABANJJA BEING UNDERESTIMATED BY OTHERS IN NRM

By Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba 

Yesterday, I was thinking about PM Nabanjja and how she's now acting president while Museveni is sick, yet we have a vice president. 

Is it possible that Museveni is looking at her as Lenin used to look at Stalin?

It's pretty interesting to compare how Joseph Stalin kept being underestimated before he took power, compared to how deftly he kept it after he took it.

People used to call him " akasajja akampi "( short man). Historian Eric Hobsbawn saw the corpse of Stalin and wrote that he was a man of very low height; around 160 cm. What in non metric units would be 5' 4 ".

But perhaps the biggest testament to Stalin's intelligence was his understanding that leadership of the USSR would stem from control of the party machine and his ability to act on that understanding. Similarly, you need to know how to get power in Uganda before you waste your time on elections, like some leaders keep doing and deceiving Ugandans. 

One of Stalin's special gifts was his ability to completely hide his thoughts and intentions from those around him if he saw it fit to do so. What that takes is not only silence but the ability to avoid accidentally revealing anything by understanding the deep implications of what one says, which is what others might pick up. In Uganda, clever people use jokes, broken English, scandals, etc, to hide their actual thoughts from the public,and sometimes people wrongly perceive them as dense.

I guess it takes a lot of intelligence to look dumb; it's kind of like Lucius Junius Brutus in Roman history. You must be very smart to get away with acting dumb.There are successful emperors of china that share this trait. They pretend to be dumb and then rise up when the time come and seize power. It is a praised personality in chinese history.

I will soon visit Stalin's Memorial and Museum in Georgia, inishallah.His poems in Georgian are pretty good. They are not the best, but they were good enough to be published in a national newspaper.

He also acted in plays, sang in choir, worked as a meteorologist for a while (his only real job before the revolution), and read voraciously.

The son of a drunken shoemaker, he was ruthlessly beaten by both parents, was born with webbed toes, suffered multiple accidents as a youth which made one of his arms longer than the other, and was exiled to Siberia 7 times.

Yet, he became, inarguably, the most powerful single human being who ever lived on this planet. As much as I despise some of his actions, he was an extremely intelligent man.

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