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Uganda / Ian Leggett.
LIBRA DT433.222 .L23 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Leggett, Ian.
- Series:
- Oxfam country profile
- An Oxfam country profile
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Uganda--History.
- Uganda.
- History.
- Uganda--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Uganda--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 88 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Uganda : the background, the issues, the people
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxfam ; Kampala : Fountain Publishers, [2001]
- Summary:
- Over the last 50 years, Uganda, once known as 'the pearl of Africa', has suffered dictatorship, economic collapse, and systematic human rights abuses. Yet today, Uganda is widely viewed as an inspirational economic success story, and as a symbol of a more vibrant, successful Africa.
- Ian Leggett explains and analyses Uganda's troubled political history, from pre-colonial times to the present day. He describes the reality of modern Uganda, where pioneering and imaginative responses to poverty and political pluralism are contrasted with the devastating effects of continuing internal conflicts.
- Throughout the book, Ugandan people speak for themselves. Children tell how they have survived conflict and abductions. Teachers describe the effects of the universal primary education programme. We hear from community groups developing innovative projects to combat HIV and AIDS. Uganda's traders, herders, and farmers talk about their livelihoods, and their experiences of economic change and globalisation.
- There is a strong sense in Uganda that the 'bad times' must not return, and that the social and economic progress of recent times must not be reversed. But enduring sectarian conflict poses huge challenges: can Ugandans work together to create a popular and sustainable peace?
- Contents:
- Introduction: the creation of a state
- The country and its people
- Pre-colonial and colonial Uganda: legacies of the past
- Twenty terrible years
- The conflict in the north
- Fighting HIV and AIDS in Uganda
- Karamoja: the rangelands of the north
- Economy and livelihoods
- Education
- Politics and freedoms
- Conclusion: an end to conflict.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Cover title.
- ISBN:
- 0855984546
- OCLC:
- 48455131
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