LEGAL DIVIDE-AND-RULE: A history of Uganda’s Constitution-Making

On 8th October this year, it will mark 30 years since the promulgation of the 1995 constitution. This constitution is the fourth since Uganda gained independence from British colonial rule on October 9, 1962. In the first part of a series of stories focused on the three decades of the 1995 constitution, we trace back to the story behind the writing of the four separate constitutions. Political scholars interviewed by Jackson Onyango, point to the fragile foundation of Uganda’s first post-independence constitution as a key factor behind the political turmoil that plagued the young nation.