Political Power In Pre Colonial Buganda
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Author | : Richard J. Reid |
Publisher | : James Currey Publishers |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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
Author | : Richard J. Reid |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Buganda |
ISBN | : 9780821414774 |
Blessed with fertile and well-watered soil, East Africa's kingdom of Buganda supported a relatively dense population and became a major regional power by the mid-nineteenth century. This complex and fascinating state has also long been in need of a thorough study that cuts through the image of autocracy and military might. Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda explores the material basis of Ganda political power, gives us a new understanding of what Ganda power meant in real terms, and relates the story of how the kingdom used the resources at its disposal to meet the challenges that confronted it. Reid further explains how these same challenges ultimately limited Buganda's dominance of the East African great lakes region.
Author | : Christopher Wrigley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2002-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521894357 |
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.
Author | : David William Cohen |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2015-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400867800 |
This book reconstructs the career of Womunafu, the son of a ruler of a small state in what is today Uganda. Recognized as an infant to be possessed by Mukama, the spirit of a heroic figure in the tradition of the wider region, Womunafu was placed in a large enclosure, one of four he would occupy from 1830 until his death in 1906. During his long life Womunafu had many wives and children and achieved a position of dominance in the village that came to be known as Bunafu. In considering his life, David William Cohen offers an unusual study of the process through which authority was organized in a pre-colonial African community and advances the study of political institutions and change. His study also explores the nature of evidence regarding African history. By assessing the usefulness of various kinds of oral data and attempting to render the "moving contexts" of the past, the author makes significant methodological contributions to the disciplines of history and anthropology. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Michael Twaddle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Buganda |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard J. Reid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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
Author | : Amii Omara-Otunnu |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 1987-07-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349187364 |
How was the military dictatorship of Idi Amin possible? Was it inevitable? The author seeks the answers to these questions in the political and military history of Uganda from colonial times and finally considers the regimes which have followed Amin's dictatorship in Uganda, exploring the political role of the army after it has taken power. This case study of Uganda contains valuable insights into civil-military relations elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa.
Author | : Rhiannon Stephens |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2015-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107244994 |
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.
Author | : Jonathon L. Earle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108417051 |
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.
Author | : John Parker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2007-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192802488 |
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.