Politics and Covid-19 in Kampala
This note presents a nuanced interpretation of the Ugandan government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic
Abstract
In this note, we present a nuanced interpretation of the Ugandan government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic by describing the response in Kampala, Uganda’s largest and capital city and epicentre of the disease. We trace the main contours of the Covid-19 policy response, its strengths and weaknesses, and explain how these can be traced to the politics of Uganda’s health policy domain and the place of Kampala in Uganda’s political settlement.
This work is an output of the African Cities Research Consortium
Citation
Bukenya, B, Mukwaya, P and Oyana, T (2022). Politics and Covid-19 in Kampala. ACRC Briefing Paper. Manchester: African Cities Research Consortium, The University of Manchester.