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Title:The role of the educated youths of Uganda in rural development
Author:Irumba, Katebalirwe-Amooti wa
Year:1985
Periodical:Mawazo
Volume:6
Issue:2
Pages:88-105
Language:English
Geographic term:Uganda
Subjects:youth
rural development
elite
student movements
Abstract:In this adaptation of a lecture given by the author to the National Union of Students of Uganda (NUSU) Seminar held at Entebbe on 2 March, 1984, the educated youth of Uganda are exhorted to self-definition and ideological reconversion, to participate in rural development and to enter into an alliance with the national petty bourgeoisie, the peasants, workers, and other democratic and patriotic citizens. The author looks at the actual social and ideological constitution of Ugandan youth, the history of their development, their relationship with national and international politics, and their orientations towards the concept and process of change in Uganda and the world. NUSU, as the most elaborately organized national body of educated youth, serves as case study. On the whole, NUSU has tended to institutionalize, popularize, intensify and perpetuate the undemocratic, reactionary and elitist tendencies of the petite bourgeoisie and compradors in Uganda, and has generally been successfully alienated from the interests, objectives and struggles of the peasants and workers. Notes, ref.
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