Black History Of 2026 Making History With Muhoozi Kainerugaba of Uganda

 Nadene Goldfoot                                        

Muhoozi Kainerugaba (born April 24, 1974, age 52, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is a Ugandan military general and the son of Ugandan Pres. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (1986– ). Kainerugaba is known for his military commands and for making controversial statements on the social media platform Twitter (now known as X).  In reading his bio, I see he has gathered many faults, but this one thing he will be doing in putting up a statue of Yoni Netanyahu is justifying why he will be remembered in Israel and the USA.  His life also reminds us of the problems Black people have had in Africa.  

Kainerugaba was born in Tanzania, the eldest of four children born to Janet and Yoweri Museveni. He was given the name Kainerugaba in honour of his mother’s brother, Henry Kainerugaba. 

                               Idi Amin Dada Oumee (30 May 1928 – 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 until his overthrow in 1979.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s parents were Ugandans living in exile because of the political climate in their home country. While in Tanzania, his father was heavily involved in efforts to depose Uganda’s president at the time, the dictator Idi Amin. 

                Uganda in bright green.  

Idi Amin was the President of Uganda during the 1976 Entebbe hostage crisis and the subsequent Israeli rescue operation, known as Operation Thunderbolt or Operation Entebbe. As the third president of Uganda, Amin ruled as a dictator from 1971 to 1979 and openly supported the Palestinian hijackers. 

After Amin was removed in 1979, Kainerugaba, his mother, and his siblings moved to Uganda for only a couple of years before needing to leave in exile due to rising political tensions. They returned to Uganda after his father overthrew the government and installed himself as president in 1986. Because of the family’s journeys, Kainerugaba attended schools in multiple countries during his childhood. 

After he completed his secondary schooling in Uganda, he attended the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Kainerugaba was raised in the Christian faith. He married Charlotte Kutesa in 1999; they have three children.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, commander of the Ugandan army and son of the country’s president, announced Thursday on X that a statue of Lt. Col. Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu will soon be erected at “the exact spot where he was killed at Entebbe Airport.” He said the gesture is intended to “strengthen blood relations with Israel.” He added, “Yoni is the big brother of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. God bless Uganda and Israel.”

 Yoni Netanyahu commanded the successful hostage rescue at Entebbe in 1976. The hostages on the hijacked Air France flight at Entebbe in 1976 were primarily Israeli citizens and Jewish passengers from various countries, including France, who were traveling from Tel Aviv to Paris. The hijackers separated the Jewish and Israeli hostages from the rest, releasing the non-Jewish/non-Israeli passengers, leaving over 100 people held.                  

              Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu (Hebrew: יוֹנָתָן "יוֹנִי" נְתַנְיָהוּ, March 13, 1946 – July 4, 1976) killed at age 30

Remember what happened in Entebbe, Uganda?  Lt. Col. Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu was the commander of the elite Israeli Sayeret Matkal unit who was killed on July 4, 1976, while leading the daring "Operation Entebbe" (Operation Thunderbolt) to rescue hostages in Uganda. He was the sole Israeli soldier killed during the mission, and was the leader of the operation which successfully freed over 100 hostages. A monument in his honor was planned for the site.

Resource:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhoozi-Kainerugaba