Re: ugnet_: What was life like during Obote I?

[jonah kasangwawo]

Mitayo,

I let this pass the first time but I'm not letting it go without a comment this time round. It may not be "a crime to accept employment in
the Public service of your country" per se, but it becomes one if this position is used to bring about the death of innocent civilians. I, therefore, find that line of reasoning inadequate.

Working together at some level is not bad at all, but don't you think that if the role of some of the participants in our short violent history is in doubt, this should be settled first ? I, for one, would find it hard to work with the killers of perhaps my own relatives. This is not to say that Opoka is a killer, but the burden is on him to disprove the allegations.

Kasangwawo

From: "Mitayo Potosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 19:09:31 +0000


Mr. Ssemakula and netters,

This all about "Transition", Neogy, Abu Mayanja, Ali Mazuri etc... is all well and good.

But, are we just going to dismiss Mr. Chris Opoka's suggestion that irrespective of our differences, there are some national aspects that demand that we all work together at some level?

Some went off-tangent with allegations of Mr. Opoka having served his country in some capacity or another. May be it needs to be stressed once again. That, per say, it is never a crime to accept employment in the Public service of your country!!

May be many of us also have opinions about "The Transition", Neogy, Abu Mayanja, Ali Mazur and so on, but at the end of the day we all are still bleeding under a junta imposed on us by Celtic-Anglo-Saxon imperialism!!

Our people are now living like serfs in their homeland!! Our people in Acholi Province are literally being exterminated!!

I beg that we soberly again look at Mr. Opoka's suggestion of constructing some platform to pull together our energies, to address common problems in our country!!

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"Ivinicus factus sum veritabem diceus." ( I have become an enemy for speaking the truth ) St Paul!
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Mitayo Potosi

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Here is a 17K pdf attachment (clear text available) to remind us of Obote's idea of nivarna. It was
written some 30 years ago.

It appeared in Transition whose editor, the late Rajat Neogy, had just 'graduated' with honors, from
Luzira 'university' and countless others were busy toiling on their 'studies', at various 'extension branches
of the univesity'. Transition had taken a couple of years without appearing, and when it did, it was from
Accra, Ghana.

ssemakula
ps:-

the author also wrote/edited/co-authored:
- African images : racism and the end of anthropology (1996)
- Cattle and kinship among the Gogo; a semi-pastoral society of Central Tanzania (1969)
- Cattle, capitalism, and class : Ilparakuyo Maasai transformations (1992)
- Persistent pastoralists : nomadic societies in transition (1985)
- Society and social change in Eastern Africa (ca. 1969)

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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:20:57 +0000

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Netters,

 

Here is  a 17K pdf attachment (clear text available) to remind us of Obote's idea of nivarna. It was written some 30 years ago.

 

It appeared in Transition whose editor, the late Rajat Neogy, had just 'graduated' with honors, from Luzira 'university' and countless others were busy toiling on their 'studies', at various 'extension branches of the univesity'. Transition had taken a couple of years without appearing, and when it did, it was from Accra, Ghana.

 

ssemakula

ps:-

 

the author also wrote/edited/co-authored:

- African images : racism and the end of anthropology (1996)
- Cattle and kinship among the Gogo; a semi-pastoral society of Central Tanzania (1969)
- Cattle, capitalism, and class : Ilparakuyo Maasai transformations (1992)
- Persistent pastoralists : nomadic societies in transition (1985)
- Society and social change in Eastern Africa (ca. 1969)

 

 

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