World Ark Magazine - November/December 2008 - (Page 13) away and form a new state), reform insurgencies (demanding radical government reform) and the worst, warlord insurgencies (driven by power-seekers). Uganda has seen at least two of these kinds of wars in recent years: In 1986, the reform insurgency of Yoweri Museveni was launched to overthrow the regime of Milton Obote, and not long after that the warlord insurgency of the rebel leader Joseph Kony began to fight the government in the North. Uganda has also been embroiled in fighting in the Congo, where the world’s growing appetite for the took in Kampala’s skyscrapers and working traffic lights. Its shops were full of goods. Just 20 years ago, much of the city was still in ruins from the civil war that brought Museveni to power. But now construction was booming, and the economy was growing at 8.9 percent a year. I thought back to the carpet seller. This was not the place he imagined. Kampala is a peaceful, vibrant city. It is the Africa that doesn’t beg to be anthropologized, that won’t make you wonder what has become of humanity. Even though several wars still rage in this region, there are more kampala, uganda © Getty/Ariadne Van Zandbergen minerals under African soil set off what looks almost like a new Scramble for Africa. In the café, I heard some shouting and looked around. On the television, a man was running down some back stairs in his underwear, while upstairs an enraged husband screamed, “Jezebel!” It was a typical Nigerian film, and would probably be the most conflict I would actually see in Uganda. I drained my tea, then headed out into the street to catch another motorcycle taxi back across town. On the way, I and more places like Kampala, where life is hard, but where normalcy has begun to seem almost normal. Not far down the hill from where I was staying was the Refugee Law Project, where a constant trickle of Uganda’s 230,000 or so refugees show up looking for help. The refugee problem is not unique to Uganda. According to the most recent numbers, some 2.3 million refugees are spread across Africa, along with another 12.7 million internally displaced people (refugees who didn’t cross a border). www.heifer.org November/December 2008 | WORLD ARK 13 http://www.heifer.org
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