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UPC and National-Democratic Liberation in Uganda

Autor Yoga Adhola
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 oct 2015
This is the first book length study of the Uganda Peoples' Congress ever. The book does for UPC and Uganda as a whole what no other book has done for both so far. It employs three sets of theories: the theory of national-democratic liberation; the theory of modes of production; and, the theory of social identities to analyse the Ugandan situation. Through the use of these theories it succeeds in unravelling issues which have remained unexplained so far. Such issues include why there have been a contradiction between Buganda, on the one side, and the rest of the identities/nationalities/tribes of Uganda on the other. The book explains that this contradiction arose from the fact that Buganda has been a dominant power/identity in the region since around 1600. The book also reveals in great details how British intelligence masterminded the 1971 coup which brought Idi Amin to power. It does a searing analysis of Obote's nationalisation measures of the late 60s, denying to socialist claims about them and showing the measures to be nationalistic as well as progressive. It treats the eruptions of the mid 60s which ended with the abolition of the monarchies as aspects of the national-democratic liberation. It has a chapter which takes a swipe at the National Resistance Movement. At the end of the book is an appendix which gives a critical analysis of the position of Marxists, particularly Professor Mahmood Mamdani on UPC.
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ISBN-13: 9781503599376
ISBN-10: 150359937X
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: XLibris

Notă biografică

Yoga Adhola hails from eastern Uganda. He went to school in Kisoko Boys' School for his primary school; moved to Kachong'a Junior Secondary School. For his O'levels he went to King's College, Budo and for his Higher School Certificate, Nabumali High School, from where he went to the University of Nairobi. At the University of Nairobi he was elected Students' Union President, 1969-70. He spent the Amin days in Dar es salaam, Tanzania. When Amin fell in 1979, he became the main liaison between the UPC President and the party in the National Consultative Council, the parliament at the time. From 1980 to 1985 he was the Editor-in Chief of the UPC paper, The People. following the coup of 1985, he went into exile, first in Kenya and later the US. During this period he was a regular contributor to the press in Uganda. He is recognised as the leading ideologue of UPC.