How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond by Janet I. Lewis.
Cambridge University Press, 277 pp., $99.99; $34.99 (paper)
On January 18, four days after Ugandans went to the polls, Yoweri Museveni, who has been the country’s president since 1986, claimed his sixth election victory—this time against the musician and legislator Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine—with 59 percent of the vote. During the campaign period, Wine was arrested multiple times, and in one particularly violent two-day interval in mid-November, at least fifty-four people—some Wine supporters, others bystanders—were shot dead by security forces or crushed by military vehicles; one was just fifteen years old. Shortly before election day, Wine’s entire campaign staff was jailed, including security, medical, and media teams, and his offices were ransacked by…