PROFESSOR NABUDERE AND UPC

 By Yoga Adhola

Professor Dan Nabudere is perhaps the most prolific author ever on Uganda affairs. He was also Marxist. These two credentials make him a very significant writer on Uganda affairs. He has also written a lot on Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) and this article is an attempt to critique what he has said about UPC. This critique is guided by our view that the theoretical framework informing Nabudere's analysis is bedeviled by three serious flaws. The first and probably most fundamental flaw is his assumption that social-economic development in Uganda has reached the point where politics is based on social classes. In our view Uganda society is still largely pre-capitalist with a thin veneer of bourgeois culture. Because of this, identity issues, caste preconceptions and religious attachments still obscure class relationships. (Golan, Galia: 1988: 48, 64-67) It is necessary for us to resolve these identity issues before we can move full throttle into class struggles.

The next flaw in Nabudere's theoretical framework involves Chairman Mao's teaching on contradictions. Chairman Mao taught that in any process there are always a number of contradictions. In handling any such complex processes, it is incumbent on us to arrange those contradictions in terms

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FROM INDEPENDENCE TO THE REVOLUTION   By Yoga Adhola

With independence attained, Uganda and the Uganda People's Congress were now at a threshold. Engels once said: ....more...
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UGANDA PEOPLE'S CONGRESS AND NATIONAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENT   By Yoga Adhola

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) is a movement to resist UPC or what UPC stands for, i.e. national-democratic liberation. The earliest incidence of this resistance is given to us by none other than the founder of the NRM, Yoweri Museveni. He recounts: ...more...
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