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Title: | The Question of Buganda in Contemporary Ugandan Politics |
Author: | Oloka-Onyango, Joe |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 173-189 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | monarchy political conditions Buganda polity Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589009708729610 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4139B5346F11AC1E67F4 |
Abstract: | In a flurry of activity culminating in the coronation of Prince Ronald Muwenda Mutebi as 36th Kabaka (king) in the middle of 1993, the question of Buganda dramatically returned to centre scene in Uganda. The process of restoring monarchy in Buganda had commenced well before. Throughout the five-year guerrilla war that was started and waged predominantly in the northern Buganda district of Luwero, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) simultaneously maintained a facade of distance from the issue of the Buganda monarchy, while working behind the scenes to facilitate its full-scale revival. The issue of Buganda returned to the forefront of national politics in the aftermath of the transformation of the NRM from an interim movement to a political grouping determined to hold on to power. For an institution that had been billed as a purely cultural edifice of its glorious past, the reincarnation of the Buganda monarchy, the return of 'eybaffe' ('our things'), was eminently political from the start, as evidenced in the Constituent Assembly elections in 1994, and the Assembly debate on the draft constitution terminating in September 1995. Buganda will remain of paramount importance in the politics of Uganda for years to come and it is simply a matter of time before the forces of greater autonomy in Buganda come to the fore once again. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |