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The Challenge of Democratic Pluralism in Uganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Amii Omara-Otunnu
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The clarion call for democracy that pervades the world scene has given much legitimacy to discourses on democracy in Africa. However, although the debate on democracy has gained momentum and respectability on the African political landscape, its parameters and contents are still not well defined. In Uganda, the assumption of power by Yoweri Museveni, leader of the National Resistance Army (NRA), was hailed by many as holding out a promise for fundamental change in the country. In particular, it was hoped that Museveni and his army would allow for the great majority of Ugandans to exercise their political acumen and legitimate right to shape a democratic destiny for the country.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , Winter 1991 , pp. 41 - 49
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1991 

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Amii Omara-Otunnu teaches in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He holds degrees from Makerere University, Harvard, the London School of Economics and Oxford. He is the author of Politics and the Military in Uganda, 1890-1985.

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