President Museveni’s rhetoric on foreign meddling

It’s a fairly standard trope to blame others, especially foreigners, for one’s flaws and failings. In Uganda, President Museveni has made it a pet subject to deflect attention away from internal crises by cavalierly evoking the spectre of foreign forces working through local actors to cause mischief and mayhem.

Predictably, the President recently attributed the latest street protest marches against government corruption to external dark forces out to undermine Uganda’s supposed march to the promised land of progress.