His family migrated to Ntungamo, in the days when it was under the British Protectorate of Uganda. Museveni attended Kyamate elementary school, Mbarara High school, and Ntare school for his primary and secondary education. Then furthered his education by gaining admission to university of Dar es Salam in Tanzania, where he studied economics and political science. The university at the time was a hotbed of radical Pan- African and Maxist political thoughts. While at the university, he formed the University Students’ African Revolutionary Front. This was a student activist group and he also led students delegation to FRELIMO held territory in Portuguese Mozambique where they received military training.

Stories say while studying under the leftist Walter Rodney, among others, Museveni wrote a university thesis on the applicability of Frantz Fanon’s ideas on revolutionary violence to post- Colonial Africa.