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NORTHERN UGANDA MESSENGER POST: Contemporary African opposition, incumbents lack grand vision beyond power#links

Contemporary African opposition, incumbents lack grand vision beyond power After the Kenya and Zimbabwe election debacles, progressive forces in Africa and their allies ought to have no illusions about the true drivers of Western, particularly British and American interests-global / African domination. It is clear, the forcefulness with which Bush or Brown invokes democracy, freedom and good governance, have little to do with morality than state realism. This truism was well understood by decolonization generation of Pan-African leaders, from Kwameh Nkrumah, to Robert Mugabe. However, post-independence generations of African leadership, most coming to power -with Western connivance- by overthrowing nationalist, anti-imperialist leaders like Nkrumah in Ghana or Milton Obote in Uganda, are clueless about the global structures of state power and trans-national modes of production and imperialism. They and post-nationalist opposition leaders have internalised neoconservative theoretical