Magufuli may have looked like Museveni's friend but they couldn't be any more different. Museveni remains arguably the biggest agent of USA interests in Africa, Magufuli on the other hand, stood in the way of USA interests in Tanzania.
Magufuli was friends with, popular among Tanzanian workers, peasants, petty traders, the unemployed, the lumpen proletariat, the ghetto people, musicians, etc. Museveni is most unpopular among the same groups of people in Uganda.
In many ways therefore, the popularly elected Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (alias Bobi Wine), the friend of Ugandan workers, peasants, musicians, the lumpen proletariat, the unemployed, the "hustlers", the ghetto people is different from Tundu Lissu. Bobi is Uganda's Magufuli.
Lissu's friends are mostly Museveni's friends. Museveni followed instructions of the imperialist IMF, WB etc on handling COVID19, indebting Uganda heavily, and eating the money with his family and allies. Magufuli rejected the instructions and refused the loans.
Museveni's propagandists on here were the ones calling Magufuli a twenty first century Kinjikitile, evoking German racist propaganda against the maji maji anti imperialist fighters, for his rejection of IMF and WB loans. Museveni's people know well how to serve imperialism.
Magufuli refused the imperialist EU "Economic Partnerships Agreements" they were trying to impose on the EAC. Museveni, the poodle for imperialism ofcourse championed the EPAs. Again, Magufuli was so different from Museveni. Magufuli loved Tanzania, worked in Tanzania's interests
Ideologically, I'd love to see Kyagulanyi as closer to Magufuli. Never mind that Museveni's propagandists have tried now to claim Museveni was a bestie with Magufuli through well planted media stories. Some white "allies" also have tried to claim Kyagulanyi is like Lissu. False.
Kyagulanyi's popularity in Uganda matches Magufuli's in Tanzania. Kyagulanyi's base in Uganda, the core of his support, when you look in Tanzania, you find that base mourning Magufuli, now. After all, don't they say Kyagulanyi is "populist", a label Magufuli has work till death?
Not every political figure that Musevenists claim is friends with the Ugandan dictator, should be dismissed by Ugandan freedom workers on that basis. The politics of most of these political figures actually are opposed to Museveni's pro USA imperialist positioning. Include Maduro
We should look at the actual politics of every political figure Musevenists claim is friends with the dictator. If their politics are pro working people, peasants, petty traders, the unemployed, indigenous people, the lumpen proletariat in their country, that is our ally.
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