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Background of the National Resistance Movement from its roots as the Front for National Salvation (FRONASA), through its 1986 ascendency to power.

Many critical governance issues were created with the discovery of major oil deposits in Uganda. Because developing countries like Uganda lack strong institutional foundations, it is widely assumed that riches flowing from oil will result in huge sums of money being diverted to politicians while the country ends up worse off in the long run. Uganda certainly faces this "natural resource curse," but the potential for corruption is only one of many governance issues arising from the potential of oil riches. The government needs to work effectively with foreign oil companies and neighboring countries to recover and transport the oil. It must also establish institutions and procedures to manage its new oil economy. Moreover, questions must be answered regarding ownership the oil producing lands and how the fragile environment of the country can be protected.

On 24 February 1966, Apolo Milton Obote, the Prime Minister of Uganda, marched into a meeting of his Cabinet with an armed escort, arrested five of his Ministers, and suspended the 1962 independence constitution he had solemnly sworn to protect. Since that fateful day Uganda has known no peace. Indeed, factional divisions and the ambitions of politicians, followed by the military dictatorship of Idi Amin after hiscoup d'étatin 1971, soon reduced the country to howling anarchy.

Examines President Yoweri Museveni, leader of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), and his analysis of a system in which parties may exist but are barred from political activity; focuses on sectarianism, and participatory versus parliamentary democracy; 1980s and 1990s.