Book
The empire of Bunyoro-Kitara: myth or reality?
Longmans of Uganda • [kampala] • Published In 1968 • Pages: 30
By: Kiwanuka, M. S. M. Semakula.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper, Kiwanuka examines whether or not there ever was an interlacustrine empire established by Hamitic warriors from the north. This Hamitic hypothesis first postulated by the explorer Speke was the accepted wisdom on the origins of the interlacustrine kingdoms for nearly a hundred years. It is essentially a racist doctrine that did not accept an indigenous origin of complex political organization in East Africa, but rather saw it as imposed from outside by a warrior caste. A rival but no less pernicious hypothesis is the Nilotic (Lwoo) theory which attributed civilizing impetus to the tribal warriors of the Sudan. Kiwanuka discredits both theories and any evidence for an extensive Bunyoro-Kitara empire.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Traditional history
- Historical reconstruction
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Banyoro
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1450-1700
- 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. Kiwanuka
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76252447
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nyoro (African people)