Following the suspension of the Global Fund in Uganda, which was created by the UN Secretary General Kofi Anan three years ago to fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, questions have been raised about corruption, the fight against HIV/AIDS, and there is also a growing weariness with the aid regime.

In order for us to understand the current war in northern Uganda whose dying embers we are currently witnessing, we have to dig into the past and unearth the remains of the history of Uganda. The root causes of the war are long term, stretching as far back as precolonial Uganda, but then the immediate causes that sparked it off date as recent as 1986. My argument i...