Ali A. MazruiTwenty years ago today, John Garang de Mabior boarded a helicopter in western Uganda and never arrived at his destination. The liberation of South Sudan was complete. Museveni does not conduct state business solely from State House. Its officer class spent the liberation years not building institutions in the south but negotiating access in northern Uganda. A man who theorizes the state before he inhabits it knows what the state is for.