Developing Uganda

By Holger Bernt Hansen

Book Overview

Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986 has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense coverage to disasters. This book assesses the question of whether the reality lives up to the image that has so impressed the supporters of its recovery. What has actually happened? How successful have the reforms been thus far? What are the prospects for Uganda's future?

Essays by the top scholars in the Weld span the breadth of the issue, from Uganda's growth out of poverty to development at the grass roots level. Developing Uganda replaces the myth and misinformation the last decade has witnessed with a realistic scrutiny by those who have studied it with care and caution.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821412094
• ISBN13: 9780821412091
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

'Developing' Uganda?

Those familiar with H. B. Hansen and M. Twaddle's series of books dealing with Uganda's politics, economy, society and international relations will not be disappointed with 'Developing Uganda'. If you are not familiar with this series but have an academic or more practical interest in this key state in Eastern Africa then it will serve as an excellent, although indepth, introduction.'Developing Uganda' is an edited volume with contributions from academics and policy makers based in Africa, Europe and the US. The content of the books' 20 chapters is very broad. It addresses a number of issues salient to contemporary Uganda from the power and influence of the World Bank/IMF and neoliberal reform, to new social movements and the role of NGOs, to issues of gender and AIDs. However, those of a more progressive political persuasion may find the book a touch lacking. In fact, a previous book in the same series edited by Hansen and Twaddle, 'Changing Uganda' (1991), is far more inclusive of radical as well as establishment approaches and is, as a result, a more nuanced volume - although now a touch out of date. Nonetheless, within the text reviewed here the chapters by S. Dicklitch on NGOs, G. B. Tukahebwa on privatisation, I. Livingstone on industry, and V. Jamal on poverty are all excellent and insightful contributions.Despite its faults, 'Developing Uganda' is definitely a recommended text.