opinionIn December 2015, I attended Rwanda's annual Umushyikirano - The National Dialogue Council - a governance accountability system peculiar to the country. At the event, President Paul Kagame made a very profound statement: "A country that has no values has got no future." But the more I pondered about it, the clearer it became that, in fact, Uganda had no basic value system, a kind of True North. A value system is not a set of political statements. In a country as culturally and religiously diverse as Uganda, the need for a common value system cannot be overstated.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 10, 2017 09:00 UTC