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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2011): Africa Review of Books, Volume 7, n° 1, 2011

Issue Published : January 5, 2022

1 - Hegemonic Regime Survival and Legitimation in Uganda: A Review Essay

https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v7i1.4936
Moses Khisa
Associate Professor of Political Science (and Africana Studies), a Research Associate with the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda and weekly columnist for Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper.

Corresponding Author(s) : Moses Khisa

mkhisa@ncsu.edu

Africa Review of Books, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2011): Africa Review of Books, Volume 7, n° 1, 2011
Article Published : March 3, 2011

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Uganda has been of immense interest to what Mahmood Mamdani uncharitably refers to as ‘stargazing academics in distant
ivory towers’2 who produce a plethora of commentaries and scholarly work on the country’s politics, culture, economy, etc. At the peak of political decay and societal dysfunction – especially in the 1970s and 1980s – the country suffered stupendous deficiency of long-term intellectual commitment on the part of its citizens, leaving the task of knowledge production to foreign nationals in the ivory towers of the Western (especially the American) academe. To fill this void, a few initiatives came to the fore in the mid/late 1980s, including the founding of Fountain Publishers to support and promote local scholarly publishing, and the Centre for Basic Research (CBR). Both Fountain Publishers and CBR are based in the Ugandan capital, Kampala...

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Moses Khisa, Associate Professor of Political Science (and Africana Studies), a Research Associate with the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda and weekly columnist for Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper.

MOSES KHISA briefly worked with the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala and also taught at Makerere University before joining the doctoral programme in the Political Science department at Northwestern University. His areas of research interest include: African state politics, electoral politics and international political economy.

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