A Fighting Man: A Political Life of Museveni Volume I, C.1944-1986 by Xavier Ogena

This political biography provides a balanced assessment of Yoweri Museveni's early life and political evolution, spanning from his birth in western Uganda through his education in Tanzania, where his ideological outlook took shape. It traces his involvement in the Obote administration, his underground armed resistance against Idi Amin's military dictatorship, and his leadership in the 1981 to 1986 bush war. The account offers an objective look at his rise to state power in 1986.