Uganda's Transition from Amin to Aminism

ISBN-13: 9783844331097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 600 str.

Kizito Michael George

Opis

When Museveni captured power in 1986 and promised Ugandans a fundamental change, many Uganda were optimistic that the tyrannical days of dictators like Amin were over. After decades in power, Musevenis government is evidence of the fact that Uganda simply made a transition from AMIN to AMINISM. President Musevenis past no party democracy and now present pseudo multiparty democratic system has been implicated in innumerable human rights abuses, election rigging and corruption scandals amidst the aloofness of America and Britain. Despite the numerous human rights abuses and corruption tendencies, Musevenis neo-liberal conduit government has managed to stay in power because western financial support. This book situates the hypocrisy of Musevenis government in the neo-liberal ideology of creating conduit states for primitive capitalist accumulation. The book shows how Museveni was created and protected by the Anglo-American neo-liberal Alliance. The book also shows how the Americans have used Pentecostalism to sustain Musevenis dictatorship through Pavlovian techniques.

O autorze

Kizito Michael George lectures Philosophy, Gender and Human Rights in Makerere University Department of Philosophy and Development Studies. He is the Programmes Manager of Makerere Centre for Applied Ethics. He holds a BA and an Mphil. He is currently writing his PhD on: Pro-Poor Empowerment and the Ethics of Poverty Policy Discourse.