“Like father like son”, is a saying turning out to be true for President Yoweri Museveni’s son Lt. Col. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who after joining the military has now also written a book on the guerilla war that brought his father’s National Resistance Army to power in 1986.
Muhoozi’s “Battles of the Ugandan resistance: a tradition of maneuver,” published by Fountain Publishers is already being sold in several Uganda bookshops, although it will be officially launched on February 5^th when the Uganda People’s Defense Forces marks Tarehe sita, the day the NRA made their first military victory against the Milton Obote (RIP) regime when they attacked Kabamba barracks in 1981.

Muhozi Kainerugaba

Muhoozi who has risen through the military ranks to become the commander of the Special Forces that also includes the Presidential Guard Brigade tells the stories of the organization and fighting in the five year guerrilla war led by his father who after coming to power through a military takeover is now seeking a fourth term as elected president of Uganda in the February 18 elections that will see the Uganda strongman extend his leadership at the helm of the country to 30 years if he wins.
Museveni also authored Sowing the Mustard Seed which details his political and military struggles with detailed first person accounts of struggles in the 1970s, as well as the guerilla war of 1981-1986.

It is not clear how significant the book will turn out to be given the author born in 1974 did not witness any of the events he describes in the book as Museveni and Brig. Pecos Kutesa who have written similar accounts of the NRA war.

But Prof. Phares Mutibwa who wrote a foreword for Muhoozi’s book believes “This book tells a tale that, in many ways, has never been told before.”

“It is both a history of the past as well as a framework of lessons from the past for the present and for the future. A well written book, which shows evidence of wide reading and primary research,” Mutibwa says.