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This article critically reflects upon conceptual and analytical questions that affect the practical implementation of food sovereignty in Uganda, a country often labelled as the potential breadbasket of Africa. It proposes to look at the integration of food and land-based social relations in the context of localised and historical–geographical specificities of livelihood practices among Acholi peasants in northern Uganda as a way to ground the concept.

Ethnic conflict in post-independence Uganda was a consequence of the confrontation between strong, ethnically divided local institutions and the post-colonial push for political centralisation, under the guise of nation building. To strengthen one, the other had to be weakened. Self-governance meant that the stakes for political power sharpened at national and local levels, ensuring that ethnic antipathies became more pronounced. Politicians who had succeeded within local politics were elevated to represent their various ethnic groups at the centre.

For students of settler colonialism in the modern era, Africa and America represent two polar opposites. Africa is the continent where settler colonialism has been defeated; America is where settler colonialism triumphed. Myinterest in this essay is the American discourse on the making of America. My ambition is to do this from an African vantage point. Europeans who came to the New World were preoccupied with the ways in which it was not like Europe. Over the centuries that followed, there developed a body of work known as American exceptionalism.

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In Sonia Correa and akshay khanna (Eds.) Putting the Law in its Place – Analyses of Recent Developments in Law Relating to Same-Sex Desire in India and Uganda: Sexuality Policy Watch Newsletter, No. 14. http://mobile.opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/4203#.VLTnh3sRp1o

This is a book chapter In: Zethu Matebeni (Eds.), Reclaiming Afrika: Queer Perspectives on Sexual and Gender Identities, Athlone: Modjaji Books Pty Ltd, Pp 65-68.

Journal article accessible at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/676892

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The article is based on her on-going ethnographic research. For a pdf of the article, please visit: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13533312.2013.846136

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