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Identity politics is a very slippery term that has been used to describe different sorts of things over time (see Brunt 1989). In this entry, identity politics is defined as the use of self-defining psychocultural constructs that give meaning to people’s life such as race, religion, and ethnicity to acquire and exercise political power in Uganda (see Bernstein 2005). Uganda is an East African country, was colonized by the British, and got independence in 1962. The country has around 40 million people with a mixture of religions and ethnicities. From the time of it’s founding as a country in 1890 to present time, identities such as race, religion, and ethnicity have been politicized to achieve political and economic advantage in Uganda.
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The main narrative pursued in this discussion is that while colonialism significantly contributed toward the creation of...
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Gumisiriza, P. (2019). Identity Politics in Uganda. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3784-1
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