Obote's Out Amin's in

Garrigan has woken up in Kampala, the capitol city of Uganda, he has spent the night before at the banquet with the fellow Englishman, and Amin. He strolls around town in the late morning with nothing specific to do, just taking in all the new sights and sounds of Africa. Almost out of nowhere the trees start to rustle and the animals start to move as mass amounts of people come into the streets. It has become official, Amin has overthrown Obote to seize power and claim himself as president for life. While Obote was away in Kenya Amin staged a coup, which is the overthrowing of a government using military force. The oddest part about this isn't the fact that a coup was staged; which tends to happen rather often in Africa, but in fact was that the people were rejoicing that it has happened. The masses of people stroll down the streets in machine guned jeeps and tanks, people on the sides of the streets burn Obote posters and smash melons painted as Obote's head. To me it is very clear that the people of Uganda have become entranced by there new head of government. They firmly beleive that this is god's will and that he will bring Uganda into prosperity. Garrigan points out that never before has he seen some many people so happy to have a man head their government who took over by force.