Developing Uganda (Eastern African Studies) - Softcover

Hansen, Holger Bernt; Twaddle, Michael

 
9780852553954: Developing Uganda (Eastern African Studies)

Synopsis

This volume assesses Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986. Uganda's recovery has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense coverage to disasters. This text assesses whether the reality lives up to the image which has so impressed the donors.It incorporates the influential Roskilde series of meetings between Ugandans, academics and officials of international organizations. The success of the reforms so far is considered, as are the future prospects. North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers

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Review

This timely collection of twenty chapters presents revisionist insights into both African studies in general and scholarship on Uganda in particular... it not only offers the newcomer to Uganda a good introduction to topical issues, but also engages readers who are more familiar with the country in argument. - Jan Kees van Donge in AFRICAN AFFAIRS
...a good picture of the current status of Uganda - CHOICE Par la richesse et la diversite de leurs analyses, ces ... livres collectifs s'etaient rapidement imposes comme ouvrages de reference... Developing Uganda ajoute une pierre a cet ambitieux edifice scientifique. - POLITIQUE AFRICAINE

Synopsis

Uganda's recovery has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense coverage to disasters. This text assesses whether the reality lives up to the image which has so impressed the donors. It incorporates the influential Roskilde series of meetings between Ugandans, academics and officials of international organizations. The success of the reforms so far is considered, as are the future prospects.

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