The authors propose that health system decolonisation requires embedding community participation through policies that incentivise historically marginalised and excluded groups to better disperse decision-making power, which is a first step in truly achieving self-determination.

This is a qualitative, historical case-study of Uganda presenting an analysis of the political history of community participation in Uganda from the pre-colonial, through the colonial and postcolonial period. 

This paper has been published in Health & Human Rights.