Colonial Buganda and the end of empire : political thought and historical imagination in Africa / Jonathon L. Earle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Earle, Jonathon L., author.

Series:

African studies series ; 138.

African studies series ; 138

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buganda--History.

Buganda.

Buganda--Intellectual life.

Buganda--Colonial influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Power and history writing in colonial Buganda

Ignatius K. Musazi: powerful kings and colonial economies, c. 1905-c. 1949

Eridadi M.K. Mulira: cosmopolitanism and citizenship, c. 1909-c. 1949

Eridadi M.K. Mulira: Buganda's status in Uganda, c. 1953-c. 1959

Abubakar K. Mayanja: pluralism and Islamic political thought, c. 1844-c. 1962

Benedicto K.M. Kiwanuka: justice and Catholic dissent, c. 1879-c. 1962

Conclusion: Textual production and historical imagination in postcolonial Buganda.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-26626-6

1-108-27081-6

1-108-27172-3

1-108-27354-8

1-108-27720-9

1-108-26472-7

1-108-27445-5