Mallaby creates the impression that two small NGOs in Uganda and the U.S. are holding the Bujagali hydropower project – and thus Uganda’s larger national interest – hostage over a waterfall and a small number of uprooted villagers. This is a gross mischaracterization...Uganda’s NGO networks and parliamentarians opposed the project primarily because of the high cost, corruption, political arm-twisting, and secrecy that are associated with it.