In November 1968, inside a government hall in Entebbe, the air carried both ceremony and calculation. Banners marking “10 Years in Parliament” hung above a long white-clothed table, and portraits praised the journey from 1958 to 1968. At the center stood Milton Obote, celebrating a decade since he first entered Uganda’s Legislative Council. Ten years earlier he had been a rising nationalist voice; now he addressed the gathering as Prime Minister who had remade the state, the dominant architect o