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Hej mate,
Who ever told you that the Less-educated, Uneducated, Formally-educated (which ever commonality epithet), do not have EDUCATED PRAGMATIKER IN WHOM THEY HAVE TRUST AND CONFIDENCE?
Who ever told you that they do not have educated representatives who listen to their grievances, forward the same to the experts for their expertise and administer implementation of the solution to their (commonality) satisfaction?
Who ever told you we commonality do not have educated representatives who report to us the findings of the experts and articulate to us the same in manners which we understand?
You see brother; this reality is like PROJECT MANAGEMENT. The wielders of the project do not have to know all the details. Theirs is to administer accomplishment. You know it is like being a King or Royal. Theirs is to administer implementation of solutions to peoples grievances. They can study ARTS HISTORY OCH HORSE RACING or what ever. Theirs is to know a little about a lot.
Like I was saying, politics is about awareness and participation for that awareness. When you participate in decision making (like for example, through election) you are not solo. You are a TEAM. When you belong to a political party or which ever conviction, you are not solo. You are there in solidarity.
Many political parties do offer internal courses (education) for their party functionaries. These climb the ladder from within the structure / infrastructures of respective parties.
So, if your party does not have those basic infrastructures, who do you blame? You should blame yourself for not seeing to it that the possiblity finns.
A Problem with the Ugandan Academics is that they are a bunch of split-visioned cowards who want others to do the crude job for them. They themselves do not even dare to show their real colours because that might interfere with their personal interests (Dinner). Then when the truth come dazzling on their faces, they turn around and start grumbling as if the situation is new. Yet, certain things have always been the same. They would not have been caught unaware if they were truly keen.
Note that it IS MYTH THAT THE SUPPORTERS OF THE FDC, UPC, NRM, or any of the contenders, COME FROM ANY BACK GROUND THAT IS SPECIFIC / SIGNIFICANT JUST FOR THAT PARTY. That is myth.
The cross-section of Ugandan electorates is identical in all cases. That is our demography. Any candidate that leans only on one or the other category is LOOSER BOUND.
You say:
My point is not to denigrate the illiterate Ugandans,
but to highlight the way M7 hoodwinks them
All political parties in Uganda have as yet (in the absence of policy and ideology based politics), THE SAME GRAZING LAND, is it not so?
Why should Musseveni hoodwinks them more easily?
Is it because he presents it to them in the language (way) they understand? He probably explains to them the findings of Hydro-electric experts in a more easily understandable manner?! And, perhaps explains to them which of his own Hydro-electric experts are better capable of dealing with the issue?!
Yes I do agree with you in essence, still I must confess, I do not see where the people who know / knew better were at the time of the project or where they were at the time their evaluation of the feasibilities was most desirable.
That unfortunately is another hallmark of Ugandan Academics (to mean educated elites) participation. They are not there when their expertise is desired, only to turn around as if the situation is new. Is it not so?
I do not think that Musseveni is the major problem. Most of the spectacular contrivance you accord Musseveni are actually deficits in our own participation when it is needed.
The uneducated masses DO NOT NEED TO SEE THOSE ISSUES. The educated few have to be better in articulating it to them so they can understand.
I do not want to Idiot-declare the Ugandan mass: that they are too foolish to understand and make a choice between wrong and right when the differences are clearly articulated to them.
Rgds
Nocla gaumoy
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