In the wake of President Museveni's latest election victory in Uganda, this article provides a critical review of the current literature on his National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime and seeks to affect a paradigm shift. We find that much of this scholarship has tended to track the regime's increasing authoritarianism over the years with an implicit assumption o...

This paper is an ethnographic study of the National Resistance Movement Party primaries that took place in the constituency of Rwampara County, Mbarara District, between mid and late 2015. Based on fieldwork carried out during the primary campaigns, it offers a detailed examination of the five candidates' campaign strategies in the run-up to the polls. It focuses i...

Major oil discoveries in the Lake Albert region of western Uganda suggest that total reserves in the area may be as high as 2.5 billion barrels. If correct, this would make the Albertine Graben – the geological formation in which the oil sits – one of the largest onshore oil fields in sub-Saharan Africa. As such, the finds have the potential to transform Uganda...

The past 25 years have witnessed sweeping educational reforms in Uganda. The introduction of 'free' Universal Primary Education (UPE, in 1998) and Universal Secondary Education (USE, in 2007) has raised social expectations about access to quality education. Over the same period the population of young people in Uganda has also grown dramatically. As a result hundre...