Routledge African Upheavals Since Independence

Product Description Grace Ibingira seeks the fundamental causes of the widespread upheavals (at least thirty-eight army coups in the past fifteen years) in African states today and finds them in the inadequate colonial preparation of African leaders for the responsibilities of independence, the earlier practices of “divide and raie,†and the “winner-take-all†polici About the Author Grace Stuart Ibingira, legal consultant to the UN Development Programme, served in the Ugandan government as a member of parliament, minister of justice, minister of state, and secretary general of the Uganda People’s Congress. He was Uganda’s ambassador to the UN until he resigned from government service in January 1974.