Faces and phases of Ugandan politics: changing perceptions of social structure and political conflict

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Title:	Faces and phases of Ugandan politics: changing perceptions of social structure and political conflict
Author:	Doornbos, Martin R.
Year:	1978
Periodical:	African Perspectives
Issue:	2
Pages:	117-133
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Uganda
Subjects:	political conditions class formation
Abstract:	How and when do political actors and observers perceive and acknowledge growing social inequality and class formation? Successive phases of Ugandan politics, from 1961-62 onwards, are reviewed, and the way in which both politicians and academics have perceived whatever has appeared to be the problem is reconsidered. Differing interpretations - traditionalism, politics of ethnicity, class politics', army rule - have closely succeeded each other. How should such a sequence of changing perspectives itself be interpreted? Notes, ref.