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Title:Not all the King's Men: inequality as a political instrument in Ankole, Uganda
Author:Doornbos, Martin R.ISNI
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.
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