Reconstructing the Ugandan State and Economy: The Challenge of an International Bantustan

Himbara, David; Sultan, Dawood

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Title:	Reconstructing the Ugandan State and Economy: The Challenge of an International Bantustan
Authors:	Himbara, David Sultan, Dawood
Year:	1995
Periodical:	Review of African Political Economy
Volume:	22
Issue:	63
Period:	March
Pages:	85-93
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Uganda
Subjects:	dependence economic dependence development cooperation Economics and Trade Politics and Government international relations Development and Technology
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249508704102
Abstract:	Evidence of the outright disintegration of the State of Uganda appeared in the late 1970s. Attempts at reconstructing the Uganda State and economy have been underway since Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986. By necessity, the country turned to the international donor community for aid funds as well as technical and managerial personnel to administer it. Foreign aid, in effect, became the cornerstone of the reconstruction process, while donor expatriates increasingly constituted the principal actors in the realm of the public policy. While initially signalling a temporary reprieve, as in most other reconstruction processes, this arrangement became an almost permanent condition. An aid-driven economy and an administrative apparatus highly dependent on donor personnel, is a novelty, for not even a direct colony was as acutely reliant on external forces. A historical parallel is, perhaps, the Bantustan regimes whose entire budgetary needs were derived from outside their territories, in this case from the South African State. The Ugandan phenomenon has some astounding implications in light of the decline and disintegration of a number of nation-states in sub-Saharan Africa. Bibliogr., notes. (Comments by Martin Doornbos in: Review of African Political Economy, no. 69 (1996), p. 425-427, and Roy Love in: Review of African Political Economy, no. 71 (1997), p. 129-137.)