Changing Uganda : the dilemmas of structural adjustment & revolutionary change / edited by Holger Bernt Hansen & Michael Twaddle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansen, Holger Bernt.

Twaddle, Michael.

Forskningsrådet for udviklingsforskning (Denmark)

Series:

Eastern African studies (London, England)

Eastern African Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uganda--Politics and government--1979---Congresses.

Uganda.

Uganda--Social conditions--1979---Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 403 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

London : J. Currey ; Kampala : Fountain Press ; Athens [Ohio] : Ohio University Press ; Nairobi : Heinemann Kenya, 1991.

Contents:

Part one : Structural adjustment on trial

Structural adjustment in Uganda : the initial experience / K. Sarwar Lateef

Economic adjustment programmes in Uganda, 1985-8 / E.O. Ochieng

IMF conditionality and structural adjustment under the National Resistance Movement / Joshua B. Mugyenyi

Part two : How people cope

The agrarian context of the Ugandan crisis / Vali Jamal

Women, children and a 'living wage' / Christine Obbo

Part three : The health of Ugandans : the social sector under pressure

Living on the edge : changing social structures in the context of AIDS / George C. Bond & Joan Vincent

Medicines and self-help : the privatization of health care in eastern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte

The quest for therapy in Moyo district / Tim Allen

Part four : Prophetic resistance, external challenges, and human rights issues

Is Alice Lakwena a witch? The Holy Sprit Movement and its fight against evil in the north /

Heike Behrend

Uganda and southern Sudan 1986-9 : new regimes and peripheral politics / Peter Woodward

Kenya's relations with Museveni's Uganda / David Throup

Human rights issues in Museveni's Uganda / M. Louise Pirouet

Part five : The constitutional bases of revolutionary change

Legal adjustment to revolutionary change / Sam K. Njuba

The rule of law and human rights in Uganda : the missing link / E. Khiddu-Makubuya

Towards constitutional renovation : some political considerations / A.G.G. Gingyera-Pinyewa

Part six : rebuilding political institutions

Institution-building : the case of the NRM and the military 1986-9 / Dan Mudoola

The Ugandan elections of 1989 : power, populism and democratization / Nelson Kasfir

Resistance councils and committees : a case study from Makerere / Apolo R. Nsibambi

Rebuilding survival structures for the poor : organizational options for reconstruction in the 1990s E.A. Brett

Part seven : problems of landholding

Institutional dimensions of land tenure reform / W. Kisamba-Mugerwa

Part eight : Revolution in education? Tackling the diploma disease

Educational reform during socio-economic crisis / W. Senteza Kajubi

Part nine : getting Ugandans to speak a common language

Recent developments in the language situation and prospects for the future / Ruth G. Mukama

Part ten : problems of gender and inculturation within a wider context

Privatization versus the market : cultural contradictions in structural adjustment / Ali A. Mazrui.

Notes:

Based on a conference sponsored by the Danish Research Council for Development Research, and others.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-585-06680-9