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Bureaucracy and chiefship in BugandaBook 1961 • Southwold, Martin
Ganda • Africa > Eastern Africa
In this brief paper, Southwold analyzes the system of delegating power and authority in the history of Buganda. He examines the strategies Ganda kings employed to maximize their authority and control over administrators and other subordinates....The Ganda of Ugandaessay 1965 • Southwold, Martin
Ganda • Africa > Eastern Africa
This article, written by a social anthropologist, is a structural-functional analysis of Ganda social organization, including political and territorial organization, kinship organization, economic organization, and socialization of children. The stud...Leadership, authority and the village communityessay 1964 • Southwold, Martin
Ganda • Africa > Eastern Africa
In this paper, Southwold looks at authority and status patterns in village Buganda. Traditional chiefs had the power to grant and revoke land rights and also the power of life and death over their subjects. However, most chiefs avoided such despotic ...