Book
A history of Buganda from the foundation of the kingdom to 1900
Africana Pub. Corp. • New York • Published In 1972 • Pages:
By: Kiwanuka, M. S. M. Semakula.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Kiwanuka has written a political history of the Buganda kingdom, beginning with a critical assessment of historical sources and theories. The author focuses on the 150 years prior to British overrule (1900), when the kingdom reached its zenith, and was later beset by various European and Islamic powers. In the 1890s, the kingdom suffered a series of religious wars among Moslem, Protestant and Catholic factions, which the author has recast into a political contest between progressive and conservative, and imperialist and nationalist interests. The author offers a new assessment of key players in this transformative period, including those of king Mwanga, prime minister Apolo Kaggwa, and F.D. Lugard, an agent of the Imperial British East Africa Company. He reveals how the smaller but tenacious Protestant faction eventually prevailed, with aid from various British agents, to become Buganda's new ruling elite. The appendices include a copy of The Uganda Agreement of 1900.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- History
- Territorial hierarchy
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Religious denominations
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ganda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1200-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Uganda
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] M. S. M. Semakula Kiwanuka
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-316)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75180672
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ganda (African people)