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In April 1979, after the fall of Idi Amin, Museveni moved back to Uganda from Exile in Tanzania and served as the defence minister after being appointed under a caretaker government led by Yusuf Lule after the overthrow of Idi Amin. However, Yusuf Lule’s government was short-lived.
Long before the title “Your Excellency” echoed in the halls of power, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Janet Kainembabazi Kataaha shared a great story filled with love, emotions, patience, sacrifices and hope. On a lighter note, the couple hails from Ntungamo District in Western Uganda, though they now reside in Rwakitura. Interestingly, during their childhood, both of them attended Kyaamate Girls’ School. At the time, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was three classes ahead of Janet, a small detail that later became part of their shared story.
In September 1972, Yoweri Museveni took part in a failed invasion of Uganda from Tanzania against the regime of President Idi Amin. Though unsuccessful, it provided important lessons in guerrilla warfare. The following year, Museveni established the Front for National Salvation and fought alongside Tanzanian forces in the Tanzania–Uganda War, which eventually overthrew Amin in 1979.
As a young Pan Africanist, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was only interested in joining the University of Dar es Salaam with an aim of participating in politics and liberation, to his disappointment, he found that many students were only focusing on careerism.
Determined to make a meaningful contribution, Museveni and other patriotic students formed a Pan Africanist students organisation called University Students African Revolutionary Front (USARF)which connected different students’ different countries across Africa.
H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni joined the University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania where he studied Political Science with an ideology of becoming a freedom fighter having for a longtime studied history of colonialists that had opened his eyes.
At the end of 1958, Museveni passed an oral interview by Mr. Edward Cleaver the headteacher of Mbarara high school hence joining secondary education at the age of 14
He left his parents’ home to stay at school, marking his first time of staying away from home and their kraal permanently since then. Joining secondary school changed his environment in regards to subjects that were taught during his primary level.
In 1950, Museveni started his formal education at a church sponsored alphabet school at Muyogo Church of Uganda and later joined Kyaamate girls’ school in 1952 during second term. This school was nicknamed Kyenkobe meaning the school of monkeys because all pupils in it were so young, the majority of the pupils were girls with only four boys.
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his parents travelled 27 miles to Kinoni where they stayed at a family friends’ home for some days until Aug 3, 1947, when he was baptized at Kinoni, Rwampara Anglican Church. In his father’s arms, the priest sprinkled little water which signified that he had joined Christianity.
Way back in September 1944, Mzee Amosi Kaguta and Esteeri Kokundeka travelled from Kyaamate to a government hospital in Mbarara in preparation of the birth of H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni a child that would later become a treasure of the nation and Africa as a whole.
The president was born on 15th September, 1944 the actual date which he struggled to find out in his youthful era. ln 1976 after the defeat of Idi Amin, Museveni started seeking for the exact date of birth starting from a hospital in Mbarara where he was born from, unfortunately the records were not available.
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