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Talkative Polity

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Talkative Polity: Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda

Talkative Polity

Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda

Florence Brisset-Foucault

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Cover: Audience and presenter at Simbawo Akatii, New Life Bar, Nakulabye, Kampala, 2008. (Photo by author.)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Brisset-Foucault, Florence, 1981- author.

Title: Talkative polity : radio, domination, and citizenship in Uganda / Florence Brisset-Foucault.

Other titles: Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.

Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2019. | Series: Cambridge centre of African studies series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019004315| ISBN 9780821423776 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446669 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Political participation--Uganda. | Radio talk shows--Political aspects--Uganda. | Radio in politics--Uganda. | Uganda--Politics and government--21st century.

Classification: LCC JQ2951.A91 B75 2019 | DDC 324.096761090511--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019004315

This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Dominique Eiferman.

What is so perilous, then, in the fact that people speak, and that their speech proliferates? Where is the danger in that?

—Michel Foucault, Orders of Discourse

How the wine shop is the People’s Parliament.

—Honoré de Balzac, The Peasants

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ONE: The Ebimeeza and the Political Culture of Kampala’s Upper Class