Dear Maama,

In my last letter I told you that, most of us here believe that Obama is going to be bad news for African dictators. I also said that Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe are likely to be affected most because Barack is very well informed about the election rigging and civil rights abuses in these countries.  Word from my smart Baganda friends here (Think Tank) is that the potential for Baganda to get Obama’s attention are even higher than first thought.

One of the important new things is that now, Mrs. Hillary Clinton is the person most likely to become secretary of state (American name for Minister of Foreign Affairs). It is common knowledge that both Mr. and Mrs. Clinton were embarrassed by President Museveni when, after praising him a “new breed” of African leader, he bribed Parliament to remove presidential term limits. And when he went on to violently rig elections. With Mrs. Clinton’s deep knowledge about the Rwanda genocide, it should take little to draw her attention to violation of human, cultural and property rights against Baganda and the possibility of genocide-scale violence.

By the way I hope you saw in the Vision that a Musoga young man works for and is personally known to Obama. We don’t know if he would help Buganda interests but he would have little opportunity to lie that Baganda have no case if make the right noise in right places. But Namusisi in New York also told me that there are two Baganda young men who worked in Mrs. Clinton’s Senate office. The signs are that there is now a big chance for Baganda to take our case to the whole world and make the dictator explain why we are wrong when we demand for our 9,000 miles and freedom to have Kabaka leads the way we want. Things like the Buganda Post and other Internet stuff are powerful enough.

Some people here reason that Mr. Obama will do like all Western donors and pretend that nothing is wrong simply because the dictator keeps things in Uganda quiet. And that Uganda is critical to the situation In Sudan and Congo. But the people in the Think Tank say that after seeing Mr. Obama’s strong statements against America supporting dictators in short-term but creating long term disasters, he and Clinton have no choice but to pay attention to a well put case by Buganda. Even on a much more strategic country like Pakistan Obama, was not willing to be soft on dictator Musaraf.  He understands that Uganda is useless to America if it blows up Kosovo or Somalia style after something happens to the dictator.

Now, what I don’t know is how we can take advantage of these big chances when the man who Kabaka gave Ddamula and his close advisors appear to be focused on local things like negotiating with Museveni or renovating Lubiri with Libyan money or attending Rotary Club meetings.

Let me stop here maama. By the way, we have made the air-ticket reservations for December. Muna Gayaza munno says Hello.

Son,

Joshua