Museveni launches Janet’s book

IT was a cool evening at Serena hotel, and a cursory look as the guests in attendance made the Wednesday evening seem like a big family affair. Not because almost everybody knew each other, but because of the cordiality with which the guests interacted.

By Cyprian Musoke.

IT was a cool evening at Serena hotel, and a cursory look as the guests in attendance made the Wednesday evening seem like a big family affair. Not because almost everybody knew each other, but because of the cordiality with which the guests interacted.

President Yoweri Museveni launched his wife’s book titled: ‘My Life’s Journey’.

Apart from the first family and their in-laws, the rest must have met each other after all it was the President’s wife, Janet Kataaha Museveni launching her biography, which cannot be divorced from her husband’s political journey and the attendant trials and tribulations she had to go through in the process.

So it was a matter-of-course that Janet had to have interacted with many of her guests at one time or another in her political career, if not in political exile.

Speaking about her book, Janet in her pre-launch review said the book was intended to give a parallel to young people (especially girls) who didn’t identify with her husband’s Master Piece “The Mustard seed”, since she was not in the bush but lived an equally difficult life in exile while her husband fought for the country’s liberation.

She also hopes to give hope to young couples who wish to be together that the beginning of marriages must not be as extravagant as contemporary marriages make it to be since they (her and Museveni) has not even furniture but one bed, and later Muhoozi’s colt as they started out in life.