The End of Empire in Uganda

The End of Empire in Uganda
Author: Spencer Mawby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350051810

The negative legacy of the British empire is often thought of in terms of war and economic exploitation, while the positive contribution is associated with the establishment of good governance and effective, modern institutions. In this new analysis of the end of empire in Uganda, Spencer Mawby challenges these preconceptions by explaining the many difficulties which arose when the British attempted to impose western institutional models on Ugandan society. Ranging from international institutions, including the Commonwealth, to state organisations, like the parliament and army, and to civic institutions such as trade unions, the press and the Anglican church, Mawby uncovers a wealth of new material about the way in which the British sought to consolidate their influence in the years prior to independence. The book also investigates how Ugandans responded to institutional reform and innovation both before and after independence, and in doing so sheds new light on the emergence of the notorious military dictatorship of Idi Amin. By unpicking historical orthodoxies about 20th-century imperial history, this institutional history of the end of empire and the early years of independence offers an opportunity to think afresh about the nature of the colonial impact on Africa and the development of authoritarian rule on the continent.

End of Empire in Uganda

End of Empire in Uganda
Author: Spencer Mawby
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781350051829

"The negative legacy of the British empire is often thought of in terms of war and economic exploitation, while the positive contribution is associated with the establishment of good governance and effective, modern institutions. In this new analysis of the end of empire in Uganda, Spencer Mawby challenges these preconceptions by explaining the many difficulties which arose when the British attempted to impose western institutional models on Ugandan society. Ranging from international institutions, including the Commonwealth, to state organisations, like the parliament and army, and to civic institutions such as trade unions, the press and the Anglican church, Mawby uncovers a wealth of new material about the way in which the British sought to consolidate their influence in the years prior to independence. The book also investigates how Ugandans responded to institutional reform and innovation both before and after independence, and in doing so sheds new light on the emergence of the notorious military dictatorship of Idi Amin. By unpicking historical orthodoxies about 20th-century imperial history, this institutional history of the end of empire and the early years of independence offers an opportunity to think afresh about the nature of the colonial impact on Africa and the development of authoritarian rule on the continent."--

Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire

Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire
Author: Jonathon L. Earle
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017
Genre: Buganda
ISBN: 9781108276283

Colonial Buganda was one of the most important and richly documented kingdoms in East Africa. In this book, Jonathon L. Earle offers the first global intellectual history of the Kingdom, using a series of case studies, interviews and previously inaccessible private archives to offer new insights concerning the multiple narratives used by intellectuals. Where previous studies on literacy in Africa have presupposed 'sacred' or 'secular' categories, Earle argues that activists blurred European epistemologies as they reworked colonial knowledge into vernacular debates about kingship and empire. Furthermore, by presenting Catholic, Muslim and Protestant histories and political perspectives in conversation with one another, he offers a nuanced picture of the religious and social environment. Through the lives, politics, and historical contexts of these African intellectuals, Earle presents an important argument about the end of empire, making the reader rethink the dynamics of political imagination and historical pluralism in the colonial and postcolonial state.

Conqueror of the British Empire

Conqueror of the British Empire
Author: Mulaka-Ntanzi-Mmilodi
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781424196777

Idi Amin Dadaaa famous Ugandan dictator, enjoyed eight years of forced sex, money, and a military coup daA(c)tat phobia that resulted in the murder of more than 300,000 Ugandans, two American journalists, and an old Israeli-British lady. Idi Amin came to state power January 25, 1971, while Obote attended a conference in Singapore. In a playful phobic attack, Idi Amin ordered the murder of the Anglican Archbishop of Uganda, the Minister of Defense, and the Inspector General of Police. With serious injuries, Mama Malyam Amin survived an Idi Amin-staged road accident. He shot his own Chief Justice and forcefully married Sarah, but had the fiancA(c)e killed. An American journalist in Aminas Uganda tells of the ordeals he had to go through with his Ugandan fiancA(c)e and how in the end, Amin conquered the British Empire and added to his military medals the last one: CBE.

British culture and the end of empire

British culture and the end of empire
Author: Stuart Ward
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526119625

This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.

Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire

Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire
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.

Another Fine Mess

Another Fine Mess
Author: Helen Epstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780997722925

Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors? In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naïve dealings with strongmen are at the root of much of the turmoil in eastern and central Africa. Museveni's involvement in the conflicts in Sudan, South Sudan, Rwanda, Congo, and Somalia has earned him substantial amounts of military and development assistance, as well as near-total impunity. It has also short-circuited the power the people of this region might otherwise have over their destiny. Epstein set out for Uganda more than 20 years ago to work as a public health consultant on an AIDS project. Since then, the roughly $20 billion worth of foreign aid poured into the country by donors has done little to improve the well-being of the Ugandan people, whose rates of illiteracy, mortality, and poverty surpass those of many neighboring countries. Money meant to pay for health care, education, and other public services has instead been used by Museveni to shore up his power through patronage, brutality, and terror. Another Fine Mess is a devastating indictment of the West's Africa policy and an authoritative history of the crises that have ravaged Uganda and its neighbors since the end of the Cold War. "A stunning new book of reportage and analysis." --Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg

End of empire and the English novel since 1945

End of empire and the English novel since 1945
Author: Rachael Gilmour
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1784991791

Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the privileged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.

Protection, Patronage, or Plunder? British Machinations and (B)uganda’s Struggle for Independence

Protection, Patronage, or Plunder? British Machinations and (B)uganda’s Struggle for Independence
Author: Apollo N. Makubuya
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2019-01-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1527525961

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.