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Unconstructed Mshamba Mtaani. Climate Change, conflict, displacement, and urbanization, Email: Halakheus@gmail.com,

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Uganda, the Sub-Imperial Pivot State Original

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By Abdullahi Boru, Abdullahi Halakhe
| The Elephant
“Geography is the mother of history.” Ali A. Mazrui Twenty years ago today, John Garang de Mabior boarded a helicopter in western Uganda and never arrived at his destination. Garang had spent the day at Rwakitura; not in Kampala, not in a ministry, but at a private cattle ranch in the hills of Kiruhura District, the personal property of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Three weeks earlier, Garang had signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Nairobi, ending Africa’s longest civil war.
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Kenyan Terms and Conditions Applied

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By Abdullahi Halakhe
| Substack
The first time I took the Marsabit-Isiolo road, it rained so hard we nearly did not make it home. It was 1998, the year of the big El Niño, shortly after I had finished high school. The road was not yet a road in any sense that a stranger to the region would recognize. It was a track, and that year the track had drowned. Somewhere north of Isiolo, the driver tied a winch from our Land Rover Defender 110 to an acacia tree, hoping to get us across a flooded stretch.
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The Beacon and the Veil

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By Abdullahi Halakhe
| Substack
On July 7, 1990, Kenyan police fired tear gas on crowds who had gathered at Kamukunji Grounds in Nairobi to demand an end to one-party rule. Saba Saba, they would come to call it, seven-seven, and it became the date multiparty Kenya reckons its birth from. The demand was at once simple and radical: let us vote, and let the vote count. Moi held out for a year and a half before repealing Section 2A of the Constitution in December 1991.
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