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To Speak and Be Heard - Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500-2015 (Hardcover)
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To Speak and Be Heard - Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500-2015 (Hardcover)
Series: New African Histories
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A history of a political practice through which East Africans have
sought to create calm, harmonious polities for five hundred years.
"To speak and be heard" is a uniquely Ugandan approach to
government that aligns power with groups of people that actively
demonstrate their assent both through their physical presence and
through essential gifts of goods and labor. In contrast to a
parliamentary democracy, the Ugandan system requires a level of
active engagement much higher than simply casting a vote in
periodic elections. These political strategies--assembly, assent,
and powerful gifts--can be traced from before the emergence of
kingship in East Africa (ca. 1500) through enslavement, colonial
intervention, and anticolonial protest. They appear in the violence
of the Idi Amin years and are present, sometimes in dysfunctional
ways, in postcolonial politics. Ugandans insisted on the necessity
of multiple voices contributing to and affirming authority, and
citizens continued to believe in those principles even when
colonial interference made good governance through building
relationships almost impossible. Through meticulous research, Holly
Hanson tells a history of the region that differs from commonly
accepted views. In contrast to the well-established perception that
colonial manipulation of Uganda's tribes made state failure
inevitable, Hanson argues that postcolonial Ugandans had the
capacity to launch a united, functional nation-state and could have
done so if leaders in Buganda, Britain, and Uganda's first
governments had made different choices.
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