Uganda, April 14 -- Forty five years ago yesterday, Prof Yusuf Kironde Lule was sworn in as the fourth president of Uganda.

The former university don was sworn in on April 13, 1979, two days after Kampala had fallen to the advancing combined force of men of the Tanzania People's Defence Forces (TPDF) and Ugandan fighting groups.

Two individuals who would later become part of the list of Lule's successors, Generals Tito Okello Lutwa and Yoweri Museveni, both clad in military fatigue, were there to ensure that the new president was secure.

The man who had earlier served as the first Black principal of Makerere University College and later assistant secretary general of the Association of African Universities, and much later assistant sec...