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The making (and unmaking) of Uganda's ethnic-based decentralization programme

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Uganda's post-colony continues to be haunted by the colonial logic of ethnicity. This logic has mapped the country's post-colonial political landscape as a terrain on which spirals of ethnic-based conflicts and violence are the norm. Because colonial ethnic spatial demarcations were also unequally governed, the question of ethnic inequality was necessarily implanted into the post-colonial political landscape. Many came to define Uganda's post-colonial politics as one of 'ethnic balancing'.

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  • Adventino Banjwa, 2022. "The making (and unmaking) of Uganda's ethnic-based decentralization programme," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-167, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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