Publications: Staff

A compelling revisionist study of diaspora and migration in the Indian Ocean region

This Publication is on sale at MISR Library. Cost: 35,000/= (Thirty five thousand Ugandan shillings)

 

 

 

This Publication is on sale at MISR Library. Cost: 35,000/= (Thirty five thousand Ugandan shillings)  

Abstract The anti-colonial narrative continues to be cast through the arena of yearning for total revolution.   Many anti-colonial elites have been criticised for harbouring “Eurocentric aspirations and their betrayal of Africa or the subaltern.” This rather ahistorical criticism remains blind to the fact that capitalist modes of production/consumption continue to connect the world in more ways than ever imagined.  Indeed, hitherto reified categories, First, Second and Third World – as ways of dividing and understanding the world – are fast becoming obsolete.

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.