Pillars of the Nation

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Role of Ugandan Child Citizens in the Struggle for National Development

Chapter 1: Global Rights Discourses, National Developments, and Local Childhoods  

Part One: Crucial Components of Child Citizenship

Chapter 2: “Education for All”: The Dilemma of Children’s Educational Attainment, National Development, and Class Mobility
Chapter 3: “Speaking the English of a Ugandan Person”: The Intersections of Children’s Identity Formation
Chapter 4: Children’s Political Socialization: Engagement and Disempowerment

Part Two: Actualizations

Chapter 5: “Village Life Is Better Than Town Life”: Identity, Migration, and Development in the Lives of Ugandan Child Citizens
Chapter 6: “Our Children Have Only Known War”: The Predicament of Children and Childhood in Northern Uganda
Chapter 7: “Did the Constitution Produce My Children!?” Cultural Production and Contestation in Uganda’s National Primary School Music Festivals

Epilogue
Notes
References
Index