Karamojan politics: extension of state power and formation of a subordinate political elite in northeastern Uganda

Karol Czuba

Third World Quarterly, 2019, vol. 40, issue 3, 558-577

Abstract: State-making processes that occur in peripheral areas and the role that local political elites play in such processes have not been adequately explored by scholars. This article investigates these important phenomena through the lens of the Ugandan state’s presence in Karamoja, in the country’s northeast, which until the early years of the twenty-first century was very limited. Rapid extension of the power of the Ugandan state in the region, upon which the country’s rulers have embarked in the last decade, has radically altered existing governance arrangements in Karamoja and led to the formation of a subordinate Karamojan political elite. This elite has been instrumental in government efforts to establish control over the region’s population and shaped this state-making process in important ways.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1538733

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