This afternoon, I officiated the opening of the 43rd roundtable for the African Association for Public Administration and Management conference in Munyonyo. Leadership is like medical work; just as doctors diagnose patients, political leaders or social reformers must identify societal needs and governance challenges.
A misdiagnosis can harm patients, just as it can have negative consequences for society when leaders make wrong assessments. In the 1960s, our student movement diagnosed that Africa needed to get out of the colonial and neocolonial mode of social economic organisation. (In 1962, only 9% of Ugandans participated in the money economy).
