The Bakonjo‐Baamba and Uganda: Colonial and postcolonial integration and ethnocide

Rubongoya, Joshua B.

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“…To conclude, in a country with diverse ethnic groups and more than 50 spoken languages, universal notions of ‘Ugandan citizenship’ are difficult to define: citizenship mainly takes place at the local ethnic community level (Clarke et al, 2014), and citizenship experiences are differentiated on the basis of the applied study lens (e.g., gender and refugee status; Tamale, 2009). In this context, Western Uganda, the specific setting of our study, is characterised by relatively high levels of Ugandan nationalism (Ricart‐Huguet & Green, 2018), potentially deriving from being the birthplace of President Museveni and, most importantly, from decades of forced colonial and postcolonial assimilation in the name of ‘nation‐building’ (Rubongoya, 1995). In addition, recent data show comparatively low perceptions of corruption and bribery in the Western region, even though this could be explained by the local long‐standing cultural logics surrounding patronage and gift‐giving, which remain widespread (Vokes, 2016).…”

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Follow the hand that feeds you? The effects of non‐governmental cash transfers on citizenship

2023

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Cash transfers (CT) are increasingly used as fundamental components of countries' poverty reduction and social protection strategies. Yet not much is known about how these interventions shape beneficiaries' relations with the state and citizenship in general, and even less evidence is available on how CTs distributed by non‐state actors affect the aforementioned variables. This paper analyses how a non‐governmental universal unconditional mobile CT (a small‐scale universal basic income experiment), handed out by a foreign NGO in a rural Ugandan village, influenced citizenship. The article zooms in on effects on recipients' perceptions of the state and interactions with government representatives, where both could potentially yield repercussions on the broader social contract. The study implements matching techniques and social network analysis to explore how the transfer influenced citizenship over time. Results suggest that the CT generated a positive effect on the non‐state actor's legitimacy, without necessarily causing a lasting impact on the legitimacy of the state. Major impacts were recorded in the treatment village's ‘call‐to‐action’ network, highlighting patterns of change in beneficiaries' relations with local duty bearers, such as the crowding out of (multiple) local leaders by an external actor linked to the CT project. These findings confirm the possibility of inducing unintended effects in local communities through CT initiatives implemented by non‐state actors.

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2023

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“…Both Tooro kingdom and the central government resisted RLM demands. The subsequent violent conflict included severe clashes between 1963 and 1965 (Cooke & Doornbos 1982:37; Rubongoya 1995:75–92).…”

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The Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda: Understanding Violence in the Rwenzori Region

Khisa¹,

Rwengabo²

2022

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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In November 2016, Uganda’s armed forces raided the Rwenzururu kingdom palace in Kasese Municipality, arresting and detaining the king and other kingdom officials on treason and other charges. This was the climax to a puzzling wave of violence that was then unfolding in the Rwenzori Region. We consider this violence an unintended consequence of the deepening politics of fragmentation, which takes two forms: “kingdomization” and “districtization.” Through fragmentation, Uganda’s ruling elites seek to weaken subnational concentrations of power, resources, and legitimacy wielded by otherwise coalesced, potentially strong, subnational authority structures and sociopolitical groups. Fragmentation fractures preexisting intra-regional unity, generates new conflicts, and reopens old wounds, leading to violent encounters at the sub-national level, between regional sub-groups, and with the central state. This unfolding of violent encounters involving both state and non-state actors has important ramifications for managing national security within socially fragile contexts and a politically fragmented polity.

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Pastoral politics in the northeast periphery in Uganda: AK-47 as change agent

Mirzeler

Young

2000

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Our aim in this article is to contribute to understanding the effects of firearms on the relationship between the state and pastoral communities in contemporary northeast Uganda. The Karamoja region has from early colonial times been a peripheral zone. Although successive post-colonial regimes have made episodic efforts to incorporate this zone more fully into Ugandan national space, relations between Karamoja and the centre remain distant and distrustful. The transformation of local modes of conflict by large-scale infusion of the AK-47 has had far-reaching effects both on relationships with the Ugandan state and its local representatives, and within Karamoja societies. The younger men who possess these weapons elude the authority of the elders, and entertain ambiguous relations with the state authorities, whom they may serve as auxiliaries or resist.

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The Bakonjo‐Baamba and Uganda: Colonial and postcolonial integration and ethnocide

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Follow the hand that feeds you? The effects of non‐governmental cash transfers on citizenship

Follow the hand that feeds you? The effects of non‐governmental cash transfers on citizenship

The Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda: Understanding Violence in the Rwenzori Region

Pastoral politics in the northeast periphery in Uganda: AK-47 as change agent

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