State Capacity and Elite Enrichment in Ugandas Northeastern Periphery
Staatliche Kapazitäten und Bereicherung der Eliten in der nordöstlichen Peripherie Ugandas
Czuba K.
April 2024SAGE Publications Inc.
Africa Spectrum
2024#59Issue 125 - 48 pp.
In the mid-2000s, Ugandas authoritarian National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime set out to extend state control over Karamoja, a long-neglected region in the northeast of the country. This effort has involved large-scale deployment of security personnel, investment in an expansive administrative system used to subdue the local population, and construction of physical infrastructure that connects Karamoja with the rest of Uganda and facilitates the exploitation of the regions natural resources by members of the political elite. Government bodies in Karamoja capably perform functions that benefit the NRM elite and regime; other government responsibilities, notably for public service provision, have been assumed by non-state organisations. This article shows that the unevenness of state capacity in the region is the result of a coherent strategy that the regime has implemented across Uganda; developments in Karamoja illuminate this strategy and, thereby, help to account for the apparent incongruity of the countrys political system.
elite enrichment , Karamoja , state capacity , Uganda
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