United States Firm Hired to Cleanse Museveni's Image

Whenever African leaders have felt that their international image needs some cleansing from a barrage of criticism arising from their internal and external policies, they always go to firms in the United States. The latest African president to do that is Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, who recently hired the American firm Mercury Public Affairs, LLC, to cleanse his autocratic image. These things are supposed to be secrets, and they are always secrets in the dictator's home country. However, we often know about them through the American press. It is interesting how someone like Museveni would rail against the West and talk about African values in public while running to American firms for help to cleanse his sour public image. I wonder whether Barack Obama could hire a firm in Uganda to cleanse his international image.