Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire (African Studies, Series Number 138) - Softcover

Earle, Jonathon L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108404367 ISBN 13: 9781108404365

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Colonial Buganda was one of the most important and richly documented kingdoms in East Africa. In this book, Jonathon L. Earle offers the first global intellectual history of the Kingdom, using a series of case studies, interviews and previously inaccessible private archives to offer new insights concerning the multiple narratives used by intellectuals. Where previous studies on literacy in Africa have presupposed 'sacred' or 'secular' categories, Earle argues that activists blurred European epistemologies as they reworked colonial knowledge into vernacular debates about kingship and empire. Furthermore, by presenting Catholic, Muslim and Protestant histories and political perspectives in conversation with one another, he offers a nuanced picture of the religious and social environment. Through the lives, politics, and historical contexts of these African intellectuals, Earle presents an important argument about the end of empire, making the reader rethink the dynamics of political imagination and historical pluralism in the colonial and postcolonial state.

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About the Author

Jonathon L. Earle is Assistant Professor of History at Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, and Chair of the African and African American Studies Program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108404367
• ISBN 13: 9781108404365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300