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| Title: | Renovating Tradition: The Discourse of Succession in Colonial Buganda |
| Author: | Kodesh, Neil |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 511-541 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Uganda United Kingdom |
| Subjects: | missions colonization Buganda polity traditions colonialism History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3097552 |
| Abstract: | This article examines the opposition between colonial invention and deeply rooted cultural tradition in the formative period of colonial rule in Buganda (Uganda). In the early colonial period, the spread of Protestant Christianity provided a way for Buganda's new leaders both to secure their status and increase the kingdom's territory. Christianity, however, spread in Buganda not just as a text of beliefs, but appeared in the clothes one wore, the types of food eaten at royal feasts, and the kinds of materials used to build a house or church. Changes in Ganda dress, eating habits, architecture, and royal ceremonies therefore revealed how Baganda living in the capital, Mengo, incorporated Christianity into their lives and, in the process, spread the religion into outlying districts. Rather than representing a radical shift in Ganda political and social discourse. however, these changes represented the outcome of the leading Christian chiefs' creative renovation of Ganda tradition. In their efforts to make Buganda modern by making Christianity traditional, the Ganda chiefs drew on a rich set of discursive practices whose roots lay deep in the history of Ganda social and political thought. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
