Underdevelopment of Uganda historical .pptx

Uganda Underdevelopment

1. Under-Development of Uganda

2. questions Pre-colonial Uganda: Foundations of Society and Production. Colonial Impact: Baganda Agreement, Hut tax, and BCGA - Challenges of Plantation and contradiction with peasant economy. Rise of Asian/Indian petty bourgeosise - Role as intermediary -Contradiction with British Capital

3. Precolonial Uganda Slave Trade – trade on east coast - Effects of slave trade specially on Northern regions Northern Uganda - sparse population, low technology ,harsh environment and lack of water The Communal mode of production – two systems emerged - Simple herding and shifting agriculture ( regular movement was necessary aspect of production) - relations of production were cooperative and appropriation limited to nature. - small surpluses, exchange(gifts) specified by traditions/rituals necessary to maintain social cohesion, Land as responsibility, not a property. - power organised on generational lines – council elders- no appropriation of non-elders, no special privilege access to social surplus, only status. - communal mode was not a static

4. South of Uganda – fertile soil, regular water supply – security of agriculture – leading to consequences for social, economic and political development. Different kingdoms in South , Buganda, Bunyoro, etc tribute based arrangement. Some form of accumulation as food, cattle and women. Relations between Feudal and Peasant . Features of trade- complementary, not competitive and second, trade was done out of surpluses.

5. Colonialism Uganda’s annexation – 1894 – the problem of control. Creation of collaborators- class of gentry out of Baganda elites – 1900 Buganda Agreement. Land settlement created a class of parasitic landlords Baganda landlords helped in social peace and Asians for economic needs – objective- hold of the market to favor metropolitan bourgeoisie Two events of importance in 1902 – Railways and formation of British Cotton Growing Association (BCGA) Planters vs Peasants – contradiction Peasant economy

6. Indian/Asian petty bourgeoisie History of migration of Asians/Indians to east coast of African Continent. Rationality behind Indians as collaborators. Rise of Indian petty bourgeoisie - Impediments for small traders- taxes Survived small trader- colonial export-import economy- two kinds of work – the hand ginner and the middlemen Both work deemed illegal – hand ginning under the 1918 Cotton rules and case of ‘Middlemen’. Indian capital vs British capital