Kingship in Uganda
Author | : Cathrine Johannessen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Buganda |
ISBN | : 9788280621474 |
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Author | : Cathrine Johannessen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Buganda |
ISBN | : 9788280621474 |
Author | : Christopher Wrigley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2002-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521894357 |
The precolonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present Uganda state, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely until 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. He has written an elegant and wide-ranging study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.
Author | : Benjamin C. Ray |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Buganda was the most prominent of the four traditional Bantu kingdoms of Uganda, which ceased to exist when the country was declared a Republic in 1967. The Kabakaship (kingship), the central institution of Buganda, was saturated with rituals and mythic images. Based on fieldwork and using extensive Luganda-language source material, this book describes and interprets the myths, rituals, shrines, and sacred regalia of the kingship within the changing contexts of the precolonial, colonial, and post-independence eras. Interpreting the Kabakaship as the symbolic center of the precolonial kingdom, this book examines James G. Frazer's theory of divine kingship, Buganda's creation myth, traditions about the origins of the kingship, regicide, royal ancestor shrines, and theories about the connection between Buganda and Ancient Egypt.
Author | : Mikael Bo Karlström |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Buganda |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Apolo Kagwa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Buganda |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mikael Bo Karlström |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Buganda |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin R. Doornbos |
Publisher | : Fountain Books |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Revisiting the history of the Ankole Kingship - a Ugandan Monarchy abolished in 1967 - has been inspired by recent political controversy and violent discourse in Uganda. This centres around the possible restoration of kingship in the southern and western parts of the country and the associated wider social and political implications - in particular in Ankole. This new revised edition sets out to shed light on what has become an insoluble stalemate. The author, and historian, interprets the role and evolution of the institution from the pre-colonial era, to its abolition after independence, and its present day status. He is concerned to understand the kingship on its own terms, and the conflict as part of a wider mesh of geographical, ethnic and administrative loyalties, which were realigned in the wake of social and political change, especially under the colonial administration.
Author | : Robert Pickering Ashe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Buganda |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Donald Anthony Low |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520019690 |
Author | : Jonathon L. Earle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108417051 |
This book offers an intellectual history of colonial Buganda, using previously unseen archival material to recast the end of empire in East Africa. It will be ideal for researchers, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students interested in the cultural, intellectual, religious and political history of modern East Africa.