ABSTRACT
There are many factors that have hindered the establishment of independent media within Uganda. Demography is one. Over 80 per cent of Uganda’s 22 million population are peasants living in rural areas and subsisting on agricultural production. At least fifty-six languages are spoken within an area of just 236,000 sq. km and only just over half of the population can read and write.1
Although English continues to be the country’s official language, those who speak it are part of the minority who have received a formal education.2
