Wild celebrations in Uganda are a familiar sight after a President Museveni claims bragging rights over bitter rivals like the International Criminal Court.
But Kenyan leader Uhuru Kenyatta has set the bar extremely high by noting that it was time for Africa to take its rightful place in global affairs in spine-tingling fashion.
Speaking at Saturday night’s Uganda Cancer Institute fundraiser at Kampala Serena skipped by Mr Museveni, President Uhuru fired at a horde of ambassadors and diplomats based in Uganda: “I cannot think of any African I know who did not accept that the United Kingdom had the right to choose to leave the European Union.”
“But if Africans attempt to exercise their sovereign will and to democratically set aside international commitments which no longer work for them – we hear a barrage of voices which tell us we can’t.”
President Uhuru called it a “truly impossible situation” to have whites to respect sovereignty of African countries in same way Africans respected sovereignty of West.
The Kenyan leader has before been indictedby the ICC in The Hague in connection with post-election Kenyan ethnic violence in 2007-08, in which 1,200 people died.
He also spoke on the need for Africans to focus on opening their markets to other countries on the continent other than be ransomed by the west.
By Shafik Himbaza
