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Let us choose, then, the harder road. The prophetic road. The dirty, costly, Hosea and Ezekiel road. Let us center the forgotten continent, reclaim the stolen names, demand reparations not as guilt theater but as restitution, and tear down every immigration barrier, heavenly and earthly that keeps us from one another

But we also know that it doesn’t have to end that way. The M23’s advances have been halted before by popular resistance. The balkanization project has failed in Congo because Congolese people refused to accept it unfortunately with exclusionary results which are a betrayal to our pre-colonial settlements. Ugandans can refuse too but with full inclusion beyond and above colonial borders. We can refuse the ethnic division being sold as cultural celebration or succession. We can refuse the threats of armed rebellion dressed as political advocacy. We can refuse the criminalization of our own flag. We can refuse to let our country become the next chapter in the Great Lakes region’s tragic history

The final vision for the NRM after forty years should not be about how to win or engineer the next election, but about how to ensure that Uganda can finally, after decades of trying, achieve the broad, sustainable political unity that has eluded us since 1952. Beyond tribal solidarity is not just a slogan; it is the only hope for a peaceful and prosperous Uganda. The olive branch extended to Norbert Mao is a start. The question is whether it will lead to a genuine olive grove, or just another fragile branch in a long history of broken ones.