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First published in 1958, The Making of Modern Uganda is concerned
with the formation of modern Uganda in the sixty years since the
1890s when the foundations of the British administration were laid.
In the first decade of the 20th century Sir Hesketh Bell,
Uganda’s Governor, decided that Uganda should be built up by
Africans under the disinterested guidance of Europeans. The book
therefore traces the emergence of a territory whose material
prosperity is mainly based upon peasant agriculture guided by the
advice of British agricultural officers. It describes the
development from an era of tribal, clan and even village
organisation to the system of centralised government along
semi-parliamentary lines but notes the disagreement as to whether
Uganda’s future should lie as a unitary or a federal state. The
controversial issue of closer union with the other East African
territories is studied at some length as also is the growth of the
politically active minority which plays so important a part in the
modern Protectorate. The author believes that the years of ‘happy
Uganda’, the years before the Second World War, were a period in
which hard work coupled with peace and obvious progress tended to
conceal for many the growth of new forces which needed an outlet
and only found one in the political and constitutional developments
of the post-war age. This book will be of interest to students of
history, African studies, ethnic studies and political science.
First published in 1975, The Kingdom of Toro in Uganda describes
the foundation of the Toro kingdom in the nineteenth century by the
rebel prince Kaboyo, and investigates how Kasagama, Kaboyo’s
grandson, was able to recreate, with little local support, a
kingdom far more extensive than Kaboyo had ever envisaged. His
personal authority was established by his insistence that its root
were traditional, thus satisfying the requirements of ‘indirect
rules’ at a time when this ill-defined concept served both as the
shibboleth and the escape clause for an overstretched British
colonial administration. Although Kasagama’s son, Rukidi, was
able to combine authority with personal popularity and to take
advantage of colonial innovations without losing control of his
kingdom, the ending of colonial rule brought an end to Toro as he
knew it. In an independent Uganda the particularism stressed by
Toro’s rulers could not survive. This book will be of interest to
students of history, colonialism, African studies and ethnic
studies.
Uganda developed as a British protectorate in a manner which made
it virtually impossible for any indigenous politician to emerge as
the unchallenged leader of his country. Obote: A Political
Biography describes the efforts of one man to find a pragmatic
solution to that problem, and in doing so to create a united,
democratic Uganda. Kenneth Ingham makes the first attempt to trace
the political career of Obote through the ups and downs of his two
presidencies and his time in exile during the military dictatorship
of Idi Amin. The book challenges accusations of tyranny and argues
that Obote's political achievements have been underestimated. It
addresses the key issue of why a country so well endowed with human
and material resources should have suffered so grievously from
shortages and internal strife. Obote's contribution emerges as
unique and at the same time representative of the problems facing
the leaders of Africa's emergent nations.
Uganda developed as a British protectorate in a manner which made
it virtually impossible for any indigenous politician to emerge as
the unchallenged leader of his country. Obote: A Political
Biography describes the efforts of one man to find a pragmatic
solution to that problem, and in doing so to create a united,
democratic Uganda.
Kenneth Ingham makes the first attempt to trace the political
career of Obote through the ups and downs of his two presidencies
and his time in exile during the military dictatorship of Idi Amin.
The book challenges accusations of tyranny and argues that Obote's
political achievements have been underestimated. It addresses the
key issue of why a country so well endowed with human and material
resources should have suffered so grievously from shortages and
internal strife. Obote's contribution emerges as unique and at the
same time representative of the problems facing the leaders of
Africa's emergent nations.
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