A World to Win: Ugandan Politics and Corruption w/ Moses Khisa
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Grace talks to Moses Khisa, Assistant Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University and a research associate with the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala.
They discuss the recent elections in Uganda, in which President Yoweri Museveni won his sixth term against populist challenger and former popstar Bobi Wine, and place them in the context of Uganda’s long slide towards authoritarianism and the failed neoliberal reforms of the 1990s.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a world to win a podcast from Tribune magazine. I'm Grace Blakely bringing |
| 0:18.0 | you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action from around the world. This week |
| 0:23.0 | I talk to Moses Kisa, assistant professor at the School of Public and International Affairs |
| 0:27.6 | at North Carolina State University, and a research associate with the Center for Basic Research |
| 0:32.2 | in Campala. We discuss the recent elections in Uganda in which President Yawari Moussevani won |
| 0:38.0 | his sixth term against popular challenger and former pop star Bobby Wein and placed them in the |
| 0:43.3 | context of Uganda's much longer slide towards authoritarianism and the failed neoliberal reforms |
| 0:48.8 | of the 1990s. We also discuss the challenges of the pandemic in Uganda, the mounting threat of |
| 0:54.0 | climate breakdown in the country and the question of where change is going to come from. |
| 0:59.3 | Thank you so much to all our amazing patrons who make this show possible. If you want to |
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| 1:27.4 | thank you to Reverend and the Makers who've let us use their track Heavyweight Champion of the |
| 1:30.6 | world as our interim outro music. And now here is Moses Kisa and what Moussevani's recent victory |
| 1:36.2 | means to the future of Uganda. Hello Moses Kisa and thank you so much for joining me on this |
| 1:46.1 | episode of a world to win. How are you today? I'm good. Thank you. It's my pleasure to be with you. |
| 1:52.5 | So I want to start today by talking a little bit about the recent elections in Uganda in which |
| 1:57.6 | authoritarian leader President Moussevani won his sixth re-election victory, despite his party losing |
| 2:03.3 | a number of seats. But the election was marred by accusations of fraud. Can you tell us a little |
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