Approximately 18 million Ugandans (46 per cent of the total population) are under 15 years old. Of these, 2.5 million are young people with disability, with only 9 per cent attending school. The substantial gap in inclusive education highlights the stuckedness in Uganda's development. Paradoxically, this gap is itself a product of development. Yet, such an outcome does not sit comfortably with dominant notions that development inevitably leads to personal and societal transformation. Delays in personal fulfilment for young people with disabilities and their families reflect the nation’s broader condition of liminality. As young Ugandans with disability navigate the unfulfilled promise of inclusive development and experience delays in their education, they remain stuck in a liminal space. Liminality, as the "stuckedness" experienced by young people with disabilities, points back to a broader national liminality, characterised by a persistent holding pattern between action and inaction.
Nalwanga et al. (Fri,) studied this question.