Advancing the Ugandan Economy: A Personal Account
By Ezra Sabiti Suruma
In 1973, when I returned from a seven-year tour of study in the United States to take up a teaching job at Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda), General Idi Amin was the president of Uganda and political parties were banned. There was no opportunity for anyone, including a young academic returning from study abroad, to participate in shaping the country’s political economy. The economy was starting to fail, and fear was spreading among the population because of the constant disappearance of people, especially those considered by the ruling regime to be intellectuals and hence a threat to its survival. In 1975,…
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