ABSTRACT
With a little imagination, the notion of a 'theatre of wrong decisions' can also refer to broader social and political settings in which particular rulings or orders are issued, sometimes consecutively so as to give the image of recurrent chains. The Rwenzori region in Western Uganda, on the Congo border, has been one such setting ever since it was enveloped by the advent of colonial partition and hegemony. During colonial times – basically until the early 1960s – the Rwenzori region came to rank as a prime example of administrative neglect by the Toro kingdom administration. In the case of Rwenzururu, official government recognition of its kingship came about in 2009 under Museveni. With the Rwenzururu movement falling apart, riven into monarchist and anti-monarchist wings, compounding the highland–lowland division and leading to serious tensions and repeated clashes between the two groups, Rwenzururu king Mumbere has been associated with calls for another secessionist project, namely for a Yiira state.
