Paying attention to the importance of love to power, this text suggests new interpretations of the history of Buganda. Tracing an African habit of thought - the idea that people ought to be tied by bonds of affection - Hanson shows how people used this idea to knot together a ki…
Public healing, political complexity, and the production of knowledge -- Genre, historical imagination, and early Ganda history -- Clanship and the pursuit of collective well-being -- Political leaders as public healers -- Clanship, state formation, and the shifting contours of …
"Beyond the Royal Gaze shifts the perspective from which we view early African politics by asking what Buganda, a kingdom located on the northwest shores of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, looked like to people who were not of the center but nevertheless became central to i…
"Beyond the Royal Gaze shifts the perspective from which we view early African politics by asking what Buganda, a kingdom located on the northwest shores of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, looked like to people who were not of the center but nevertheless became central to i…
Introduction: Power and history writing in colonial Buganda -- Ignatius K. Musazi: powerful kings and colonial economies, c. 1905-c. 1949 -- Eridadi M.K. Mulira: cosmopolitanism and citizenship, c. 1909-c. 1949 -- Eridadi M.K. Mulira: Buganda's status in Uganda, c. 1953-c. 1959 …