Power might belong to the Ugandan people, after all

Although it will soon be three decades since the current Constitution of Uganda was enacted, it is possible that less than 10 percent of the 50 million citizens have seriously read the sacred document. (We had a couple of constitutions before, which got scrapped, and about a decade of military rule, when we didn’t need one.)

But even those many citizens who have never opened the Constitution to read a single line know that Chapter One famously opens with the assertion that “All power belongs to the people!”