Graduation Year
2019
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
International/Intercultural Studies
Second Department
Media Studies
Reader 1
Professor Harmony O'Rourke
Reader 2
Professor Joe Parker
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Kalanzi Kajubi
Abstract
My paper is a transdisciplinary analysis of the conditions of Uganda’s economy of power that allowed for the emergence of Bobi Wine’s People Power, Our Power movement. It is grounded primarily in Tejumola Olinayan’s notion of the myth of western modernization as explicated in an interview with Lars Cuzner for a German symposium on “Rethinking Cosmopolitanism” and built upon in his 2004 book Arrest The Music: Fela And His Rebel Art & Politics, in which he constructs a simultaneously “oppressive and "enchanting." modernism, which Fela's is both a symptom and a resistor of. This, along with postcolonialist Homi Bhabha’s concept of colonial ambivalence helps me conceptualize a similar unfixed relationship that I recognize between Bobi and Western modernity, as it’s expressed through formal state politics.
Recommended Citation
Kajubi, Kalanzi, "A Ghetto Presidency: Bobi Wine & the Role of Digital and Urban Spaces in Ugandan Power Relations" (2019). Pitzer Senior Theses. 111.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/111
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