Uganda Study & Guide - AllRefer - Uganda Information

* Country Profile
o COUNTRY
o GEOGRAPHY
o SOCIETY
o ECONOMY
o TRANSPORT AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
o GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
o NATIONAL SECURITY
* Introduction
* Historical Setting
o HISTORICAL LEGACIES AND SOCIAL DIVISIONS
o UGANDA BEFORE 1900
+ Early Political Systems
+ Long-Distance Trade and Foreign Contact
o THE COLONIAL ERA
+ The Issue of Independence
+ Power Politics in Buganda
o INDEPENDENCE: THE EARLY YEARS
o MILITARY RULE UNDER AMIN
o UGANDA AFTER AMIN
+ The Interim Period: 1979-80
+ The Second Obote Regime: 1981-85
+ The Return of Military Rule: 1985
* The Society and Its Environment
o PHYSICAL SETTING
+ Location and Size
+ Land Use
+ Mountains
+ Lakes and Rivers
+ Climate
o POPULATION
+ Size
+ Composition and Distribution
o ETHNIC DIVERSITY AND LANGUAGE
+ Eastern Lacustrine Bantu
# Baganda
# Basoga
# Bagisu
+ Western Lacustrine Bantu
# Banyoro
# Batoro
# Banyankole
+ Eastern Nilotic Language Groups
# Karamojong Cluster
# Iteso
# Kakwa
+ Western Nilotic Language Groups
# Langi and Acholi
# Alur
+ Central Sudanic Language Groups
+ Foreigners
# Nubians
# Rwandans
# Asians
o RELIGION
+ World Religions
# Christianity
# Islam
+ Local Religions
+ Millenarian Religions
# Yakan Religion
# Holy Spirit Movement
o SOCIAL CHANGE
o WOMEN IN SOCIETY
o EDUCATION
+ The School System
# Primary Education
# Secondary Education
# Postsecondary Education
+ Teachers
+ Educational Finance
o HEALTH AND WELFARE
+ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
+ Health Care
+ Social Welfare
* The Economy
o HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
o GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMY
o ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT
+ Direct Economic Involvement
+ Budgets
+ Rehabilitation and Development Plan
o LABOR FORCE
o AGRICULTURE
+ Crops
# Coffee
# Cotton
# Tea
# Tobacco
# Sugar
+ Livestock
+ Fishing
+ Forestry
o INDUSTRY
+ Energy
+ Manufacturing
# Construction Materials
# Consumer Goods
+ Mining
o TOURISM
o TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
+ Rail and Road Systems
+ Air Transport
+ Communications
o BANKING AND CURRENCY
+ Banking
+ Domestic Credit
+ Currency and Inflation
o FOREIGN TRADE AND ASSISTANCE
+ Foreign Trade
+ Balance of Payments
+ External Debt
+ Aid
+ Regional Cooperation
* Government and Politics
o THE TEN-POINT PROGRAM
o CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
o SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
+ The Executive
+ The National Resistance Council
+ Local Administration
+ Judicial System
+ Elections
o POLITICAL DYNAMICS
+ Fears of Regional Domination
+ Buganda and the Kingship
+ Political Parties
+ Surprise Political Tactics
o FOREIGN RELATIONS
+ Regional Organizations
+ Kenya and Tanzania
+ Uganda's Other Neighbors--Sudan, Rwanda, and Zaire
+ Britain
+ The United States
+ Israel
+ The Soviet Union
* National Security
o NATIONAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT
o MILITARY HISTORY
+ Early Development
+ World War I
+ World War II
o NATIONAL SECURITY SINCE INDEPENDENCE
+ The First Obote Regime: The Growth of the Military
+ Idi Amin and Military Rule
+ The Second Obote Regime: Repression Continues
+ The Rise of the National Resistance Army
o THE ARMED FORCES IN SOCIETY
+ Constitutional Authority
+ Defense Spending
+ Military Strength
+ Military Service
# Recruitment and Training
# Conditions of Service
+ Veterans
+ Kadogos
o FOREIGN MILITARY ASSISTANCE
+ Foreign Assistance in the 1960s and 1970s
+ Foreign Assistance in the 1980s
o EXTERNAL SECURITY CONCERNS
+ Zaire
+ Sudan
+ Kenya
+ Rwanda
o INTERNAL SECURITY SERVICES
+ Early Development
+ Postindependence Security Services
o CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
+ Prison System
+ Patterns of Crime and the Government's Response
o HUMAN RIGHTS
* Appendix. Tables
* Glossary