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Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror (Columbia Global Reports)

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“A stunning new book of reportage and analysis.” – Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg

Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors?

In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni’s 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders’ single-minded center of attention on the War on Terror and their naïve dealings with strongmen are on the root of much of the turmoil in eastern and central Africa.

Museveni’s involvement in the conflicts in Sudan, South Sudan, Rwanda, Congo, and Somalia has earned him substantial amounts of military and development assistance, in addition to near-total impunity. It has also short-circuited the power the people of this region might another way have over their destiny. Epstein set out for Uganda more than 20 years ago to work as a public health consultant on an AIDS project. Since then, the kind of $20 billion worth of foreign aid poured into the country by donors has done little to support the well-being of the Ugandan people, whose rates of illiteracy, mortality, and poverty surpass those of many neighboring countries. Money meant to pay for health care, education, and other public services and products has as a substitute been used by Museveni to shore up his power through patronage, brutality, and terror. Another Fine Mess is a devastating indictment of the West’s Africa policy and an authoritative history of the crises that have ravaged Uganda and its neighbors because the end of the Cold War.

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