Live and Let Live: The wretched of the earth in Acholi also deserve distributive justice
Ugandan Member of Parliament Simon Oyet (FDC, Nwoya) should be commended for his stand on behalf of the wretched of the earth regarding the land question in Acholi. Find it here: http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/Brigadier_evicts_100_families_68661.shtml All Acholi, including those among us here who are also involved in massive land enclosures and speculations in Acholi, must think about the rest of those less fortunate and their children and their children. This by no means is to discourage individual progress. But to think of gradually easing Acholi society into the kind of ravenous market society that some among us think we must hurtle it towards. My position is that, Acholi communal land has been husbanded by our forbearers for centuries and access and use were well-regulated to ensure equity and social equality. This is not to say that there were no poorer folks as a result of laziness or some other disadvantages, but no one was landless or unable to grow their own foo...