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Book Buganda in Modern History

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  • Author : Donald Anthony Low
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN : 9780520016408
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Buganda in Modern History written by Donald Anthony Low and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mind of Buganda

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  • Author : Donald Anthony Low
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN : 9780520019690
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Mind of Buganda written by Donald Anthony Low and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Modern Uganda

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  • Author : Richard J. Reid
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-02-17
  • ISBN : 1108210295
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book A History of Modern Uganda written by Richard J. Reid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging examination of its turbulent and dynamic past for all those studying Uganda's place in African history and African politics. Reid identifies and examines key points of rupture and transition in Uganda's history, emphasising dramatic political and social change in the precolonial era, especially during the nineteenth century, and he also examines the continuing repercussions of these developments in the colonial and postcolonial periods. By considering the ways in which historical culture and consciousness has been ever present - in political discourse, art and literature, and social relationships - Reid defines the true extent of Uganda's viable national history.

Book Uganda

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  • Author : Jan Jelmert Jørgensen
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 1981-01
  • ISBN : 9780856646430
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book Uganda written by Jan Jelmert Jørgensen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kingship and State

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  • Author : Christopher Wrigley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-05-16
  • ISBN : 9780521894357
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Kingship and State written by Christopher Wrigley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. He has written an elegant and wide-ranging study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.

Book A History of Buganda from the Foundation of the Kingdom to 1900

Download or read book A History of Buganda from the Foundation of the Kingdom to 1900 written by Matia Semakula Mulumba Kiwanuka and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond the Royal Gaze

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  • Author : Neil Kodesh
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2010-03-12
  • ISBN : 0813929709
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Royal Gaze written by Neil Kodesh and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2011 African Studies Association Herskovits Award Beyond the Royal Gaze shifts the perspective from which we view early African politics by asking what Buganda, a kingdom located on the northwest shores of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, looked like to people who were not of the center but nevertheless became central to its functioning. Drawing on insights from a variety of disciplines—history, historical linguistics, archaeology, and anthropology—Neil Kodesh argues that the domains of politics and public healing were intimately entwined in Buganda from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted throughout Buganda, Kodesh demonstrates how efforts to ensure collective prosperity and perpetuity—usually expressed in the language of health and healing—lay at the heart of community-building processes in Buganda. Kodesh's work offers a novel approach to the use of oral sources and opens up new possibilities for researching and writing histories of more distant periods in Africa's past. Beyond the Royal Gaze will appeal to students and scholars of health and healing, political complexity, and the production of knowledge in places where limited documentary evidence exists.

Book Uganda Since Independence

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  • Author : Phares Mukasa Mutibwa
  • Publisher : Africa World Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780865433571
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Uganda Since Independence written by Phares Mukasa Mutibwa and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story of Unfulfilled Hopes An analysis of Uganda's history before independence, and an analysis of the Museveni years.

Book A History of Modern Uganda

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  • Author : Richard J. Reid
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-03-02
  • ISBN : 1107067200
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book A History of Modern Uganda written by Richard J. Reid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of Uganda, examining its political, economic and social development from its precolonial origins to the present day.

Book Kintu

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  • Author : Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2018-01-25
  • ISBN : 1786073781
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Kintu written by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this epic tale of fate, fortune and legacy, Jennifer Makumbi vibrantly brings to life this corner of Africa and this colourful family as she reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. The year is 1750. Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda kingdom. Along the way he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. Blending oral tradition, myth, folktale and history, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break free from the burden of their past to produce a majestic tale of clan and country – a modern classic.

Book Protection  Patronage  or Plunder  British Machinations and  B uganda   s Struggle for Independence

Download or read book Protection Patronage or Plunder British Machinations and B uganda s Struggle for Independence written by Apollo N. Makubuya and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the scramble for Africa, Britain took a lion’s share of the continent. It occupied and controlled vast territories, including the Uganda Protectorate – which it ruled for 68 years. Early administrators in the region encountered the progressive kingdom of Buganda, which they incorporated into the British Empire. Under the guise of protection, indirect rule and patronage, Britain overran, plundered and disempowered the kingdom’s traditional institutions. On liquidation of the Empire, Buganda was coaxed into a problematic political order largely dictated from London. Today, 56 years after independence, the kingdom struggles to rediscover itself within Uganda’s fragile politics. Based on newly de-classified records, this book reconstructs a history of the machinations underpinning British imperial interests in (B)Uganda and the personalities who embodied colonial rule. It addresses Anglo-Uganda relations, demonstrating how Uganda’s politics reflects its colonial past, and the forces shaping its future. It is a far-reaching examination of British rule in (B)uganda, questioning whether it was designed for protection, for patronage or for plunder.

Book A History of Modern Uganda

Download or read book A History of Modern Uganda written by Richard James Reid and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging examination of its turbulent and dynamic past for all those studying Uganda's place in African history and African politics. Reid identifies and examines key points of rupture and transition in Uganda's history, emphasizing dramatic political and social change in the precolonial era, especially during the nineteenth century, and he also examines the continuing repercussions of these developments in the colonial and postcolonial periods. By considering the ways in which historical culture and consciousness has been ever present - in political discourse, art and literature, and social relationships - Reid defines the true extent of Uganda's viable national history. --

Book A History of African Motherhood

Download or read book A History of African Motherhood written by Rhiannon Stephens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of African motherhood over the longue durée demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural and political life. The book explores how people in the North Nyanzan societies of Uganda used an ideology of motherhood to shape their communities. More than biology, motherhood created essential social and political connections that cut across patrilineal and cultural-linguistic divides. The importance of motherhood as an ideology and a social institution meant that in chiefdoms and kingdoms queen mothers were powerful officials who legitimated the power of kings. This was the case in Buganda, the many kingdoms of Busoga, and the polities of Bugwere. By taking a long-term perspective from c.700 to 1900 CE and using an interdisciplinary approach - drawing on historical linguistics, comparative ethnography, and oral traditions and literature, as well as archival sources - this book shows the durability, mutability and complexity of ideologies of motherhood in this region.

Book African Holocaust

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  • Author : John F. Faupel
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2019-01-13
  • ISBN : 178912302X
  • Pages : 503 pages

Download or read book African Holocaust written by John F. Faupel and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Holocaust, which was first published in 1962, tells the extraordinary story of how and why a group of 22 Catholic converts to Christianity in the historical kingdom of Buganda (now part of Uganda) were executed between 31 January 1885 and 27 January 1887. These “Uganda Martyrs” were killed on orders of Mwanga II, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda, at a time of a three-way religious struggle for political influence at the Buganda royal court. The episode also occurred against the backdrop of the “Scramble for Africa”—the invasion, occupation, division, colonization and annexation of African territory by European powers. A fascinating read.

Book Political Power in Pre colonial Buganda

Download or read book Political Power in Pre colonial Buganda written by Richard J. Reid and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buganda was one of the most favoured of East Africa's inter-lacustrine kingdoms. Blessed with fertile and well-watered soil, capable of supporting a relatively dense population, it became a major regional power by the mid-19th century. North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers

Book A History of Buganda

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  • Author : M. S. M. Semakula Kiwanuka
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN : 9780582640832
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book A History of Buganda written by M. S. M. Semakula Kiwanuka and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire

Download or read book Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire written by Jonathon L. Earle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an intellectual history of colonial Buganda, using previously unseen archival material to recast the end of empire in East Africa. It will be ideal for researchers, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students interested in the cultural, intellectual, religious and political history of modern East Africa.