On February 26, the Uganda African Peer Review Mechanism national governing council held the third good Governance Forum in Kampala. Its theme was “fostering unity in diversity in Uganda.”

The Prime Minister, Apolo Nsibambi, chairperson of Uganda Human Rights Commission, Med Kaggwa, and other distinguished guests attended. During presentations, threats to Uganda’s unity in diversity were identified.

Some of the threats listed included but not limited to failure to manage diversity and maintaining discriminatory colonial policies on recruitment into the army and civil service. This colonial legacy created in Uganda the so-called north-south divide; where the colonialists concentrated on recruiting people from the north into the armed forces and the southerners were perpetually kept in civil service. This failure to manage diversity on the part of colonialists created stereotypes that people of a particular ethnicity were fit to do certain jobs.