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Title: | Not all the King's Men: inequality as a political instrument in Ankole, Uganda |
Author: | Doornbos, Martin R. |
Year: | 1978 |
Pages: | 232 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Change and continuity in Africa |
City of publisher: | The Hague |
Publisher: | Mouton |
ISBN: | 9027977070 |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | political science Nkore polity history 1900-1999 |
Abstract: | This study presents the modern political history of the Kingdom of Ankole in Western Uganda, essentially the period from 1901 to 1971. The author offers a detailed exploration of the development of ethnic conflict and of the erosion of Kingship as a central and meaningful institution and concludes that Ankole's new sociopolitical order and inequality were fundamentally congruent with the premises and format of the colonial State. Chapter 1 gives background to local politics in Uganda. Chapter 2 offers a reinterpretation of the political relationships in precolonial Nkore, focusing on the relationships between the Bairu and the Bahima. Chapter 3 traces the major impacts of the new colonial arrangements on the society - e.g. ethnic divisiveness and growing social inequality. Chapter 4 identifies the major continuities and changes during the late colonial and early postcolonial period, and is followed by the retrospective, generalizing fifth chapter. |