Surveying the cattle with an expert eye, he asks his herdsman why one is limping, who is the mother of this young one. So do Africans. That is why Museveni invited himself this month to Kinshasa, capital of neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, which was Zaire until a few months ago. He was worried that Laurent Kabila, the rebel he helped to the country's presidency, was not making quick enough progress in restoring the ruined country. The meeting had all the ceremony of a summit, but it was really an opportunity for Museveni to give his friend some discreet but blunt advice.
People expect to see things happening.
We can help with the rest. Uganda's leader is the brains and strategist of the entire region's new thinking. He believes the same African-style ideology can work just as well in the troubled lands of Congo, Rwanda and Sudan. But it is far from certain that what Museveni did in Uganda can be repeated elsewhere. Museveni himself seems to have few doubts.