The Odyssey of the Nubi : from soldiers of the British empire to full citizens in Uganda / Moses Ali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ali, Moses, 1939- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uganda National Liberation Front (Anti-Dictatorship).

Nubi (African people)--Uganda.

Nubi (African people).

Nubi (African people)--Ethnic identity.

Islam--Uganda.

Islam.

Nubians--Ethnic identity.

British colonies.

Citizenship.

Politics and government.

Islam--Influence.

Mutiny.

Africa, East.

Uganda.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 309 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm

illustrations.

maps.

portraits.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

From soldiers of the British empire to full citizens in Uganda

Place of Publication:

Uganda : Jescho Publishing House, 2022.

Summary:

The feeling of having no power over one's history, no right to describe oneself, no capacity to determine one's destiny, no influence over what is written, no identity to self-definition, and the presence of general misery and hopelessness set the rational central glue that puts the several pages and chapters of this book together. The author presents an antithesis of a community that has for quite long been misrepresented, disregarded, and betrayed by the emerging democratic dispensation. This work is born from the available sources about the Nubi people as they struggled to survive in the pre- and post-colonial Uganda. The pangs therein shaped the ideas, thoughts, and reflections that define the Nubi people. In its preliminary chapter, the book reflects on what must have only been courage for men whose migration and settlement were externally driven. Nevertheless, they bore the brunt of establishing colonial Uganda and only much later were they integrated into post-independence Uganda as citizens. The role of individuals such as Selim Bey is cursorily visited to recognize their bravery in the creation of the Uganda nation. Chapter Two presents the Nubi community as the bastion of the Islamic establishment in Uganda, showing how it was propagated, introduced, anchored, promoted, and protected in Buganda--which became the boiling pot of Islamic civilization in Uganda. The Nubi settlement and occupation constitute Chapter Three, which narrates how the West Nile region was part of the Lado enclave, parts of which reverted to Uganda in the early colonial border schemes. Chapter Four gives an account of the Nubi resistance against the British establishment, depicting the injustice to Nubi soldiers--leading to the earliest struggles against colonialism, and perhaps planting the seeds of the struggle for the independence of Uganda. Developments in post-colonial Uganda form the narratives in chapters Five, Six, Seven, and Eight, which deal with the various challenges that the Nubi have gone through in what might be described as injustices to the community as a social category. Central in these chapters is the contention that the Nubi were marginalized and were largely denied their fundamental rights and entitlements, considering that the descendants of the first Nubi were all born in Uganda.The concluding chapter raises hopes for the future of the Nubi community as the NRM government takes the initiative of not only resettling them but also constitutionally recognizing them as natives of mother Uganda. On this premise, the NRM regime represents the light at the end of the tunnel for the Nubi community. It remains to be seen how effective the strategies of the regime are in rectifying a past full of wrongs.-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789913633222

9913633222

OCLC:

1479776194