Dani Wadada Nabudere
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Dani Nabudere | |
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East Africa Railways and Harbours chairman | |
In office 1971–1974 | |
Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs (Uganda) | |
In office 1979–1979 | |
Minister of Culture, Community Development, and Rehabilitation of Uganda | |
In office 1979–1980 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Political Scientist, Barrister | December 15, 1932
Dani Wadada Nabudere (15 December 1932 – 9 November 2011) was a
His political, intellectual and community work spanned over half a century of public activism. He was a speaker, mobilizer, and a prolific writer. Among his issues of engagement were food security, peace, knowledge heritages, Africa's contribution to humanizing the world, lifelong learning, cross-border solidarities, international political economy, Pan-Africanism, defense of the commons, cognitive justice, community sites of knowledge, restorative governance, economy, and justice.
Professor Nabudere was Minister of Justice of Uganda in 1979 and Minister of Culture, Community Development, and Rehabilitation of Uganda in 1979–1980 in the UNLF Interim Government of Uganda. He was an early President of the African Association of Political Science[1] and Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) from 1985 to 1988.[citation needed] He was the founder and principal of the Marcus Garvey Pan-Afrikan Institute (MPAI), Mbale, Uganda. Over the last ten years of his life, Nabudere was working on setting up grassroots organizations to assist rural communities and raise their voices over issues that concern their lives.[2]
Biography
Early life
Dani Wadada Nabudere was born on 15 December 1932, in Budadiri, Uganda, into a family of Bumayamba village, Buyobo.[3]
Nabudere attended school in
In Ugandan Independence movement
Nabudere stepped onto the national political scene in the 1960s. As a student in London in 1961, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the United Kingdom Uganda Students Association together with Yash Tandon, Ateker Ejalu, Chango Machyo, and Edward Rugumayo, who were all later to play a significant role in the history of Uganda. UGASA was engaged in helping to raise the political consciousness of young Ugandans studying or working in the UK and in Europe. One of the main activities of the organization was to lobby British parliamentarians for Uganda's independence.[6][7]
Activism under the Obote government
When he returned from the UK in 1964, he quickly began to fall out of favor with the Uganda People's Congress. The UPC was a radical nationalist party. Its then Secretary-General, John Kakonge, had broad communist leanings, and had a strong following among the youth wing of the party, among them, Nabudere. At the Gulu Conference of the party in 1964, the left wing was outmaneuvered by Milton Obote and the party mainstream leadership.[8] He was also, a
When Obote abolished political parties and declared a one-party state in 1969, Nabudere fell victim to his continued party activism. Nabudere had earlier in 1963 formed a Mbale-based activists' group called the Uganda Vietnam Solidarity Committee to campaign against American imperialism and aggression in Vietnam.
In September 1965, Nabudere was accused by a member of the
Under Idi Amin government
When Idi Amin took power in January 1971, a number of Ugandans on the left decided to work with the Amin government, but they were soon disillusioned, and beginning with Rugumayo a number of them resigned from government in 1972. Nabudere was appointed by Idi Amin in 1971 as the East Africa Railways and Harbours chairman based in Nairobi, Kenya, but in 1974 protesting Amin's brutality he resigned and moved to Tanzania where he became one of the leaders of the anti-Amin resistance movement.[6][7]
1970s: Dar Es Salaam Exile & The Debate
As an academic, Nabudere was pivotal in at least three politically and pedagogically significant debates at the
The first was about Tanzania, the direction it was going and how it might show the way for the rest of Africa towards the ultimate goal of socialism. It was mainly a debate among the Tanzanian radicals, sometimes joined in by others from outside Tanzania such as Walter Rodney and Nabudere.[11]
The second was a debate mainly among the African members of the teaching staff of the University, in particular in the Faculty of Social Sciences, on how the prevailing pedagogy of their disciplines might be challenged and changed to reflect the African context and conditions.[6][7]
The third was a debate among primarily the Ugandans on "the Hill" as
The Gang of Four and the Ugandan National Liberation Front
In his recount of the period of the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF), the political organization around which Ugandan exiles united to topple Amin, Prof. Edward Rugumayo, who became chairman of UNLF's ruling council, says Nabudere played a central part in the formation of the liberation group. When the UNLF was established and a ruling body for it formed known as the National Consultative Council (NCC), Nabudere was elected chairman of its political and diplomatic committee. He became a key leader in the NCC, alongside Edward Rugumayo, Yash Tandon, and
Under the UNLF interim government, Nabudere was twice appointed government minister: in 1979 he was Minister of Justice and from 1979–80, Minister of Culture, Community Development and Rehabilitation.[16]
The first administration of the UNLF government under President Yusuf Lule lasted only six-eight days. In September 1979 he was ousted from power by a vote of no confidence moved in the transitional parliament, the NCC chaired by Edward Rugumayo, if democratically removed, and replaced by President Godfrey Binaisa. It was the Binaisa administration that was then removed from power by the Military Commission of the UNLF led by Paulo Muwanga and Yoweri Museveni, and probably backed by Tanzania.
The 1980s and post-NRM era
The 12 May 1980 army coup that overthrew Binaisa and placed Paulo Muwanga in power, Nabudere fled to exile, as did the other three members of the 'gang of four'.[17]
In 1982 Nabudere moved to
Nabuderelived in exile until 1993 when President Museveni invited him back to the country to be part of the Constituent Assembly (CA).[19]
Upon Nabudere's return, he became a very outspoken critic of Museveni. Over the course of the CA, Nabudere many times led members of the Assembly on walkouts when they disagreed with the other CA members. He also joined with Aggrey Awori to form the National Caucus for Democracy (NCD), a CA-based pressure group. [5][permanent dead link]
The MPAI and Afrikology
Nabudere founded the Marcus Garvey Pan-Afrikan Institute (MPAI) in Mbale, Uganda, the objective of which was to create a repository of knowledge on African science, philosophy, medicine and other indigenous African knowledge which he called "Afrikology".[20] MPAI was later to evolve into a university, of which he was the first Chancellor-Designate.[6][21]
Death
After suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure, Nabudere passed away at his home in the early hours of 9 November 2011. He was survived by his wife and son among others.[22]
Notable publications
Books
- The Political Economy of Imperialism, 1976, Tanzania Publishing House and Zed Press, London;
- Essays on the theory and practice of Imperialism, 1979, Onyx Press, London;
- Imperialism in East Africa, 1980, Zed Press, London (in two volumes);
- Imperialism and Revolution in Uganda, 1980, Onyx Press, London;
- The Crash of International Finance Capital and its implications for the Third World, SAPES Trust, 1989, Harare, Zimbabwe;
- Democracy and the One-Party State in Africa, Institut Für Afrika Kunde, Hamburg, Germany, 1989; Co-edited with P. Meynes;
- The Rise and Fall of Money Capital, 1990, Afrika in Trust, Harare/London;
- Uganda Referendum 2000: Winners and Losers, Monitor Publications, Kampala;
- Pan-Africanism and Integration in Africa, 2002, SAPES Publications, Harare, Zimbabwe, co-edited with Ibbo Mandaza;
- The Global Capitalist Crisis and the Way Forward for Africa, Kampala, 2009.
- The Crash of International Finance Capital and its implications for the Third World, Republished by Ufahamu, London, 2009.
- Afrikology, Philosophy, and Wholeness: An Epistemology, Africa Institute of South Africa, PRETORIA, February 2011.
Other Selected writings
- Government should be clear on Obote
- Development theories, knowledge production and emancipatory practice Chapter in 'The development decade? economic and social change in South Africa, 1994–2004', Vishnu Padayachee,
- The Crash of International Finance-Capital and its Implications for the Third World
- Brave Faces Won't Resolve New Crisis
References
- ^ Tandon, Yash (June 2012). "Dani Wadada Nabudere, 1932–2011: an uncompromising revolutionary". Review of African Political Economy. 39 (132): 336. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ISBN 978-1-906387-43-3. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
- ^ a b Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Issue 6, Uganda. Parliament, Government Printer. Kampala, 2011. p.1916, Thursday, 10 November 2011. https://www.parliament.go.ug/cmis/views/dea3dd9d-1a1e-41a5-82ab-e75033267734%253B1.0
- ^ Interview with Dani Nabudere: "Prison cut short Nabudere's honeymoon", "NEW SERIES: MY PRISON LIFE". The Observer (Uganda), 23 November 2006. Observer Website Archive
- ^ Wakholi, Peter. "Nabudere, Dani Wadada." In Dictionary of African Biography. : Oxford University Press, 2012. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001/acref-9780195382075-e-1485
- ^ a b c d e "Nabudere: An uncompromising revolutionary | Pambazuka News". 5 March 2016.
- ^ a b c http://www.newvision.co.ug/mobile/Detail.aspx?NewsID=629966&CatID=417 [permanent dead link]
- ^ Tandon, Yash. "Dani Wadada Nabudere, 1932–2011: An Uncompromising Revolutionary." Review of African Political Economy 39, no. 132 (2012): 335–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42003279.
- ^ These academic and political debates were much discussed in the academic and popular press of the period, and are reviewed in part in publications Ojwok 1974a, Nursey-Bray 1980, and Y. Tandon 2021, cited below. Many of these scholars are active in 2021, and continue to publish on these same questions.
- ^ Tsomondo, M. S. (1975). From Pan-Africanism to Socialism: The Modernization of an African Liberation Ideology. Issue: A Journal of Opinion, 5(4), 39–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/1166523
- ^ Nursey-Bray, P. F. "Tanzania: The Development Debate." African Affairs 79, no. 314 (1980): 55–78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/721632.
- ^ Yash Tandon. Talkback: Is govt finally giving in to policy reversal on liberalisation? Daily Monitor (Kampala, Uganda) 29 August 2021 Daily Trust Website
- ^ Tandon, Yash, ed. The Debate. University of Der es Salaam, Debate on Class, State, & Imperialism. With an Introduction by A.M. Babu. Tanzania Publishing House, 1982.link
- ^ Omwony Ojwok. REVIEW OF THE DEBATE ON IMPERIALISM, STATE, CLASS AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION. University of Dar es Salaam, 1976-77. UMichigan Archive of UDS published original paper.
- ^ Mutibwa, Phares Mukasa. Uganda since independence: A story of unfulfilled hopes. Africa World Press, 1992.
- ^ ISSN 1749-1800.
- ^ http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category.php/obituary/83570 [1] [2]
- ^ David Simon (2012) Remembering Dani Wadada Nabudere, Review of African Political Economy, 39:132, 343-344, DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2012.688646
- ^ "Prof. Nabudere". independent.co.ug. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ Osha, Sanya. Dani Nabudere's Afrikology: A Quest for African Holism. CODESRIA, 2018. full text Archived 2021-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Nabudere, Dani W. "Towards the establishment of a Pan-African university: A strategic concept paper." African Journal of Political Science 8, no. 1 (2003): 1-30. https://pdfproc.lib.msu.edu/?file=/DMC/African+Journals/pdfs/political+science/volume8n1/ajps008001002.pdf
- ^ Prof. Nabudere is dead. The Daily Monitor (Kampala, Uganda). Wednesday November 09 2011. link
- Simon, D. (2012). "Remembering Dani Wadada NabudereDavid SimonDavid Simon." Retrieved August 2015, 2015, from http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category.php/obituary/83572.
- Ssemutooke, J. (2012). "Dani Nabudere, the constantly critical don." Retrieved August 2015, 2015, from [6][permanent dead link].
- Tandon, Y. (2012). "Nabudere: An uncompromising revolutionary." Retrieved August 2015, 2015, from http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category.php/obituary/83570.
- Sserunjogi, E. M. (22 November 2011). "Professor Nabudere, Marxist father of Afrikanism dies." Retrieved August 2015, 2015, from https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035601/http://independent.co.ug/obituary/4-obituary/4914-prof-nabudere.
External links
- ""Cheikh Anta Diop: The social sciences, humanities, physical and natural sciences and transdisciplinarity"" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-12-06. (569 KB) International Journal of African Renaissance Studies. University of South Africa Press. pp. 6–34. 2 (1) 2007. ISSN: Print 1818-6874,