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Creating a Nation Without a Past

Secondary-School Curricula and the Teaching of National History in Uganda

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(Re)Constructing Memory: Education, Identity, and Conflict

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Standing before the assembled students of Nabumali High School on June 16, 1970, President Milton Obote called for national consciousness: “We must have this One Uganda; we must have this One People; we must have this One Parliament, so that the youth of Uganda of today and tomorrow will see Uganda as a whole…. We must begin to have our own history” (Obote, 1970a, pp. 1–2). Forging such a unified self-perception would not be easy.

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    Ashley L. Greene

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Greene, A.L. (2017). Creating a Nation Without a Past. In: Bellino, M.J., Williams, J.H. (eds) (Re)Constructing Memory: Education, Identity, and Conflict. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-860-0_5

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