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Changing Uganda

von Forskningsrådet for udviklingsforskning (Denmark)

History Politics African Studies Economics

ISBN

9780852553480

Verlag

London : J. Currey ; Kampala : Fountain Press ; Athens : Ohio University Press ; Nairobi : Heinemann Kenya

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01.01.1970

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Uganda Yoweri Museveni African politics political change economic development structural adjustment resistance committees IMF negotiations national army restructuring human rights education reform AIDS crisis language policy poverty alleviation constitutional reform African studies revolutionary change post-colonial Africa international scholars development economics political history 1980s Africa independence movements governance socio-economic strategies African governance models Business & Economics political science Ugandan history African development.

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Yoweri Museveni battled to power in 1986. His government has impressed many observers as Uganda's most innovative since it gained independence from Britain in 1962. The Economist recommended it as a model for other African states struggling to develop their resources in the best interests of their peoples. But where was change to start? At the bottom in building resistance committees, or at the top in tough negotiations with the IMF? How was it to continue? Was it in the restructuring of the national army, in increasing respect for human rights, in the reform of education, in tackling AIDS, or in getting Ugandans to speak a common language? Was it in building more viable survival strategies for the poorest Ugandans or in restructuring the national constitution? The last five years have shown a radical approach to Uganda's dilemmas. Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle previously edited Uganda Now. It was brought together at a significant moment just as President Museveni was gaining power in 1985-6. It was so much in demand that it even entered the magendo market on the streets of Kampala. The book, which is still in print, was described by The Canadian Journal of African Studies as 'virtually a mini-encyclopedia of Uganda' and by The African Studies Review as 'the best overview of Uganda's trauma in the last two decades.' The editors have assembled another team of Ugandan and international scholars to review the dilemmas of introducing revolutionary changes in an African country deeply affected by structural adjustment plans which have been imposed from outside.