Museveni's 'beef' with Bobi started with Obote
Daily Monitor Sunday May 09 2021 On February 24, 1966, when Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana was toppled by a military coup while on a state visit to Vietnam, many people looked to a “lesser luminary” to replace him as Africa’s spokesperson. The man who was mentioned as a potential replacement for Nkrumah, or Osagyefo (which means redeemer), was Milton Obote. Obote, a great admirer of Osagyefo, based his actions on Nkrumah’s ideas regarding centralised governance and maintaining an Afro better suited to a Boney M. dance party than a presidential portrait. Obote and Nkrumah were contemporaries; ...
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