Why Uganda Independence Constitution Failed by Onyango Odongo

In Why Uganda Independence Constitution Failed, late Ugandan public intellectual Onyango Odongo argues the 1962 Constitution collapsed because colonial "miseducation" dismantled traditional governance, producing post-independence leaders inherently incapable of independent statecraft. This fundamental vulnerability gave rise to predatory politics and a fractured Ugandan State. he book outlines several core reasons for this failure: Colonial Subversion of Indigenous Systems, Flawed Political Architecture, Predatory Political Culture, Concentration of Power and Instability and Concentration of Power and Instability.