Moses Khisa
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 92009 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Moses Khisa |
| NOMBRES | Moses |
| APELLIDO | Khisa |
| FIRMA | KHISA M |
| AFILIACIONES | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1107-9370 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Elgar Encyclopedia of African Politics
This informative Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the key political concepts, ideas, institutions, and processes in Africa. Leading scholars define core terms, trace the evolution of debates and discuss the ongoing relevance of these topics in contemporary academic and policy contexts.
From The ‘Bobi Wine Factor’ to the ‘Muhoozi Project’
The Making of Uganda’s Deepening Autocracy
President Yoweri Museveni, in power for four decades, has overseen a steady drift toward autocracy in Uganda. Elections have been held regularly since 1996, yet they have led not to democratization but its opposite. The ruling party uses state coercion and patronage to maintain its political dominance and demobilize the opposition. The emergence of a charismatic opposition candidate, former pop star Robert Kyagulanyi (also known as Bobi Wine), so…
Rejoinder to Eunice Akullo’s Review of
Rwanda-Uganda relations
Rwanda and Uganda have had strained relations, oscillating between warm, lukewarm, hostile and outright war. Since the biggest falling out during the Second Congo War (1998–2003), both governments have variously accused each other of wrongdoing, including allegations of supporting rebel activities, covert counterintelligence operations and espionage. The most recent escalation in frosty relations saw the closure of Katuna border post. Because the…
Rethinking the Pan-African Agenda
The original Pan-African ideal had, as its programmatic agenda, the struggle to free Africans in the diaspora from slave bondage and to liberate the African continent from the despicable occupation by European imperial powers. This article revisits this agenda for liberation, placing it in the current crisis of globalisation and examining the continued marginal place of Africa in the global capitalist political economy. The article sketches out t…
Militarism and the Politics of Covid-19 Response in Uganda
Within the broader context of securitized responses to Covid-19 globally, Uganda experienced an oversized military role, ranging from law-and-order and lockdown enforcement, to managing food-relief supplies, medical operations, and partisan political repression. What explains this excessive militarization? To address this poser, the article draws on secondary sources and key-informant interviews to test the hypothesis that military involvement in…
Uganda's ruling coalition and the 2021 elections
Since coming to power, President Museveni has consistently stitched together disparate actors and representatives of divergent constituencies in his ruling coalition. This became especially necessary as his rule grew less popular and more precarious. This article argues that the nature of the ruling coalition reflects the structure of politics and menu of priorities for the incumbent. The political landscape shapes composition of the ruling coali…
The Lord's Resistance Army
The Lord’s Resistance Army (lra) was and remains an enigmatic rebel group. Officially defeated and driven out of northern Uganda since about 2008, following failed peace talks brokered by the then semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS, before it became South Sudan), the lra and its long surviving commander Joseph Kony have remained at large in 2022. No longer in Uganda and posing almost no direct security threat, the lra nonetheless …
The Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda
In November 2016, Uganda's armed forces raided the Rwenzururu kingdom palace in Kasese Municipality, arresting and detaining the king and other kingdom officials on treason and other charges. This was the climax to a puzzling wave of violence that was then unfolding in the Rwenzori Region. We consider this violence an unintended consequence of the deepening politics of fragmentation, which takes two forms: "kingdomization" and "districtization." …
Briefing
A year out from the 2021 ugandan election, opposition supporters had a lot to worry about. After four straight presidential elections in which the non-incumbent vote was remarkably concentrated in the candidacy of Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), political developments were suggesting that this coalescence would not survive into the upcoming campaign season. At the centre of the FDC, Besigye’s long-time rival for the party …
Revisiting the Civil-Military Conundrum in Africa
The military is a central component of the state and society with implications for statehood and social stability. Since independence, Africa has grappled with contentious and contradictory roles of armed forces whether they be part of or against the state. Much of the early scholarship on the role of the military tended to paint a positive picture, presenting it as a critical pillar and an agent of modernisation for the newly independent states.…
Reconceptualising Civil-Military Relations in Africa
Relations between African militaries, civilian authority and the public have undergone significant transformation over the past decades. Much of previous scholarship on civil-military relations tended to approach the subject through the idiom of the coup. Analysts in the 1960s initially presented the military in positive terms as a modernising agent, a representation cast aside in the throes of coups d’état, instability and rights violations at t…
Politicisation and Professionalisation
Problems of civil-military relations have been at the centre of recurring political crises in contemporary Africa. Routine military intrusion in politics characterised the first four decades of independent Africa. Citizens suffered at the hands of the armed forces, infamous for widespread human rights violations. One key response to this dual civil-military problem was to pursue a strategy of politicising the armed forces in order to make them a)…
Shrinking democratic space? Crisis of consensus and contentious politics in Uganda
Previously considered a reforming and promising African country, economically and politically, Uganda has in recent years suffered substantial shrinkage of democratic space. This article argues that two factors have been crucial: the gradual breakdown of minimum political consensus forged under a ‘broad-based’ government which climaxed in a relatively progressive constitution in 1995 and, second, the security imperative accentuated by the war on …
Whose Africa is rising
This briefing revisits the ‘Africa rising’ narrative. It makes two arguments. First, the ‘Africa rising’ narrative at best sits on a shaky foundation. African economies may have registered modest growth in recent years but the growth is either superficial or not happening in the sectors that matter the most. Second, the rather rosy picture of a rising Africa masks the continent’s continued marginal position in the global capitalist structures of …
Politics of exclusion and institutional transformation in Ethiopia
Ethiopia experienced a critical juncture in 1991 with the defeat of the military dictatorship, opening up the possibilities of a new political order. Since then the country underwent social engineering and institutional transformation emerging as a leading reformist state under hegemonic-party rule with high institutional state capacity but also a concentration, and even personalisation, of decision-making power. This approximates to a path of ‘a…
Managing elite defection in Museveni's Uganda
Like other semi-authoritarian leaders, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni faced constant threats of elite defections during successive general elections since 1996. Except in 2011 when he lured prominent opposition members to his ruling party, Museveni faced defections on the eve of four out of the five general elections during his rule: in 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2016. The 2015 defection of former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi was billed as Museveni’s toughes…
The Discourse of ‘Africa’s Turn’
Hegemonic Regime Survival and Legitimation in Uganda
Uganda has been of immense interest to what Mahmood Mamdani uncharitably refers to as ‘stargazing academics in distantivory towers’2 who produce a plethora of commentaries and scholarly work on the country’s politics, culture, economy, etc. At the peak of political decay and societal dysfunction – especially in the 1970s and 1980s – the country suffered stupendous deficiency of long-term intellectual commitment on the part of its citizens, leavin…
Arbitrary States
Rebecca Tapscott’s Arbitrary States provides a novel analytical and theoretical framework for interpreting and explaining the exercise of state power under an authoritarian system of rule. The book
Legislative development in Africa
The predominant narrative in mainstream scholarship on African politics has a decidedly personalist outlook. The most ubiquitous and influential analytical framework for many decades was neopatrimo
Shrinking democratic space? Crisis of consensus and contentious politics in Uganda
Previously considered a reforming and promising African country, economically and politically, Uganda has in recent years suffered substantial shrinkage of democratic space. This article argues that two factors have been crucial: the gradual breakdown of minimum political consensus forged under a ‘broad-based’ government which climaxed in a relatively progressive constitution in 1995 and, second, the security imperative accentuated by the war on …
Politicisation and Professionalisation
Problems of civil-military relations have been at the centre of recurring political crises in contemporary Africa. Routine military intrusion in politics characterised the first four decades of independent Africa. Citizens suffered at the hands of the armed forces, infamous for widespread human rights violations. One key response to this dual civil-military problem was to pursue a strategy of politicising the armed forces in order to make them a)…
Reconceptualising Civil-Military Relations in Africa
Relations between African militaries, civilian authority and the public have undergone significant transformation over the past decades. Much of previous scholarship on civil-military relations tended to approach the subject through the idiom of the coup. Analysts in the 1960s initially presented the military in positive terms as a modernising agent, a representation cast aside in the throes of coups d’état, instability and rights violations at t…
Managing elite defection in Museveni's Uganda
Like other semi-authoritarian leaders, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni faced constant threats of elite defections during successive general elections since 1996. Except in 2011 when he lured prominent opposition members to his ruling party, Museveni faced defections on the eve of four out of the five general elections during his rule: in 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2016. The 2015 defection of former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi was billed as Museveni’s toughes…
Militarism and the Politics of Covid-19 Response in Uganda
Within the broader context of securitized responses to Covid-19 globally, Uganda experienced an oversized military role, ranging from law-and-order and lockdown enforcement, to managing food-relief supplies, medical operations, and partisan political repression. What explains this excessive militarization? To address this poser, the article draws on secondary sources and key-informant interviews to test the hypothesis that military involvement in…
Briefing
A year out from the 2021 ugandan election, opposition supporters had a lot to worry about. After four straight presidential elections in which the non-incumbent vote was remarkably concentrated in the candidacy of Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), political developments were suggesting that this coalescence would not survive into the upcoming campaign season. At the centre of the FDC, Besigye’s long-time rival for the party …
Revisiting the Civil-Military Conundrum in Africa
The military is a central component of the state and society with implications for statehood and social stability. Since independence, Africa has grappled with contentious and contradictory roles of armed forces whether they be part of or against the state. Much of the early scholarship on the role of the military tended to paint a positive picture, presenting it as a critical pillar and an agent of modernisation for the newly independent states.…
The Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda
In November 2016, Uganda's armed forces raided the Rwenzururu kingdom palace in Kasese Municipality, arresting and detaining the king and other kingdom officials on treason and other charges. This was the climax to a puzzling wave of violence that was then unfolding in the Rwenzori Region. We consider this violence an unintended consequence of the deepening politics of fragmentation, which takes two forms: "kingdomization" and "districtization." …
Politics of exclusion and institutional transformation in Ethiopia
Ethiopia experienced a critical juncture in 1991 with the defeat of the military dictatorship, opening up the possibilities of a new political order. Since then the country underwent social engineering and institutional transformation emerging as a leading reformist state under hegemonic-party rule with high institutional state capacity but also a concentration, and even personalisation, of decision-making power. This approximates to a path of ‘a…
Whose Africa is rising
This briefing revisits the ‘Africa rising’ narrative. It makes two arguments. First, the ‘Africa rising’ narrative at best sits on a shaky foundation. African economies may have registered modest growth in recent years but the growth is either superficial or not happening in the sectors that matter the most. Second, the rather rosy picture of a rising Africa masks the continent’s continued marginal position in the global capitalist structures of …
Uganda's ruling coalition and the 2021 elections
Since coming to power, President Museveni has consistently stitched together disparate actors and representatives of divergent constituencies in his ruling coalition. This became especially necessary as his rule grew less popular and more precarious. This article argues that the nature of the ruling coalition reflects the structure of politics and menu of priorities for the incumbent. The political landscape shapes composition of the ruling coali…
Rethinking the Pan-African Agenda
The original Pan-African ideal had, as its programmatic agenda, the struggle to free Africans in the diaspora from slave bondage and to liberate the African continent from the despicable occupation by European imperial powers. This article revisits this agenda for liberation, placing it in the current crisis of globalisation and examining the continued marginal place of Africa in the global capitalist political economy. The article sketches out t…
Hegemonic Regime Survival and Legitimation in Uganda
Uganda has been of immense interest to what Mahmood Mamdani uncharitably refers to as ‘stargazing academics in distantivory towers’2 who produce a plethora of commentaries and scholarly work on the country’s politics, culture, economy, etc. At the peak of political decay and societal dysfunction – especially in the 1970s and 1980s – the country suffered stupendous deficiency of long-term intellectual commitment on the part of its citizens, leavin…
The Discourse of ‘Africa’s Turn’
Managing elite defection in Museveni's Uganda
Like other semi-authoritarian leaders, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni faced constant threats of elite defections during successive general elections since 1996. Except in 2011 when he lured prominent opposition members to his ruling party, Museveni faced defections on the eve of four out of the five general elections during his rule: in 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2016. The 2015 defection of former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi was billed as Museveni’s toughes…
Shrinking democratic space? Crisis of consensus and contentious politics in Uganda
Previously considered a reforming and promising African country, economically and politically, Uganda has in recent years suffered substantial shrinkage of democratic space. This article argues that two factors have been crucial: the gradual breakdown of minimum political consensus forged under a ‘broad-based’ government which climaxed in a relatively progressive constitution in 1995 and, second, the security imperative accentuated by the war on …
Whose Africa is rising
This briefing revisits the ‘Africa rising’ narrative. It makes two arguments. First, the ‘Africa rising’ narrative at best sits on a shaky foundation. African economies may have registered modest growth in recent years but the growth is either superficial or not happening in the sectors that matter the most. Second, the rather rosy picture of a rising Africa masks the continent’s continued marginal position in the global capitalist structures of …
Politics of exclusion and institutional transformation in Ethiopia
Ethiopia experienced a critical juncture in 1991 with the defeat of the military dictatorship, opening up the possibilities of a new political order. Since then the country underwent social engineering and institutional transformation emerging as a leading reformist state under hegemonic-party rule with high institutional state capacity but also a concentration, and even personalisation, of decision-making power. This approximates to a path of ‘a…
Revisiting the Civil-Military Conundrum in Africa
The military is a central component of the state and society with implications for statehood and social stability. Since independence, Africa has grappled with contentious and contradictory roles of armed forces whether they be part of or against the state. Much of the early scholarship on the role of the military tended to paint a positive picture, presenting it as a critical pillar and an agent of modernisation for the newly independent states.…
Reconceptualising Civil-Military Relations in Africa
Relations between African militaries, civilian authority and the public have undergone significant transformation over the past decades. Much of previous scholarship on civil-military relations tended to approach the subject through the idiom of the coup. Analysts in the 1960s initially presented the military in positive terms as a modernising agent, a representation cast aside in the throes of coups d’état, instability and rights violations at t…
Politicisation and Professionalisation
Problems of civil-military relations have been at the centre of recurring political crises in contemporary Africa. Routine military intrusion in politics characterised the first four decades of independent Africa. Citizens suffered at the hands of the armed forces, infamous for widespread human rights violations. One key response to this dual civil-military problem was to pursue a strategy of politicising the armed forces in order to make them a)…
Briefing
A year out from the 2021 ugandan election, opposition supporters had a lot to worry about. After four straight presidential elections in which the non-incumbent vote was remarkably concentrated in the candidacy of Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), political developments were suggesting that this coalescence would not survive into the upcoming campaign season. At the centre of the FDC, Besigye’s long-time rival for the party …
The Lord's Resistance Army
The Lord’s Resistance Army (lra) was and remains an enigmatic rebel group. Officially defeated and driven out of northern Uganda since about 2008, following failed peace talks brokered by the then semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS, before it became South Sudan), the lra and its long surviving commander Joseph Kony have remained at large in 2022. No longer in Uganda and posing almost no direct security threat, the lra nonetheless …
The Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda
In November 2016, Uganda's armed forces raided the Rwenzururu kingdom palace in Kasese Municipality, arresting and detaining the king and other kingdom officials on treason and other charges. This was the climax to a puzzling wave of violence that was then unfolding in the Rwenzori Region. We consider this violence an unintended consequence of the deepening politics of fragmentation, which takes two forms: "kingdomization" and "districtization." …
Rwanda-Uganda relations
Rwanda and Uganda have had strained relations, oscillating between warm, lukewarm, hostile and outright war. Since the biggest falling out during the Second Congo War (1998–2003), both governments have variously accused each other of wrongdoing, including allegations of supporting rebel activities, covert counterintelligence operations and espionage. The most recent escalation in frosty relations saw the closure of Katuna border post. Because the…
Rethinking the Pan-African Agenda
The original Pan-African ideal had, as its programmatic agenda, the struggle to free Africans in the diaspora from slave bondage and to liberate the African continent from the despicable occupation by European imperial powers. This article revisits this agenda for liberation, placing it in the current crisis of globalisation and examining the continued marginal place of Africa in the global capitalist political economy. The article sketches out t…
Militarism and the Politics of Covid-19 Response in Uganda
Within the broader context of securitized responses to Covid-19 globally, Uganda experienced an oversized military role, ranging from law-and-order and lockdown enforcement, to managing food-relief supplies, medical operations, and partisan political repression. What explains this excessive militarization? To address this poser, the article draws on secondary sources and key-informant interviews to test the hypothesis that military involvement in…
Uganda's ruling coalition and the 2021 elections
Since coming to power, President Museveni has consistently stitched together disparate actors and representatives of divergent constituencies in his ruling coalition. This became especially necessary as his rule grew less popular and more precarious. This article argues that the nature of the ruling coalition reflects the structure of politics and menu of priorities for the incumbent. The political landscape shapes composition of the ruling coali…
Arbitrary States
Rebecca Tapscott’s Arbitrary States provides a novel analytical and theoretical framework for interpreting and explaining the exercise of state power under an authoritarian system of rule. The book
Legislative development in Africa
The predominant narrative in mainstream scholarship on African politics has a decidedly personalist outlook. The most ubiquitous and influential analytical framework for many decades was neopatrimo
Rejoinder to Eunice Akullo’s Review of
Elgar Encyclopedia of African Politics
This informative Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the key political concepts, ideas, institutions, and processes in Africa. Leading scholars define core terms, trace the evolution of debates and discuss the ongoing relevance of these topics in contemporary academic and policy contexts.
From The ‘Bobi Wine Factor’ to the ‘Muhoozi Project’
The Making of Uganda’s Deepening Autocracy
President Yoweri Museveni, in power for four decades, has overseen a steady drift toward autocracy in Uganda. Elections have been held regularly since 1996, yet they have led not to democratization but its opposite. The ruling party uses state coercion and patronage to maintain its political dominance and demobilize the opposition. The emergence of a charismatic opposition candidate, former pop star Robert Kyagulanyi (also known as Bobi Wine), so…
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