Reading revolution in late colonial Buganda

The ‘Africanisation’ of Psychiatry

“…47 In the years following the Second World War, farmers complained of poor wages, diminished by post-war inflation, colonial cotton regulations and exploitative middlemen. 48 Bataka protesters such as Jemusi Miti and Ssemakula Mulumba also developed populist critiques of Buganda's hierarchy and relationship to colonial power, constructing, as Carol Summers has argued, 'a new sort of citizenship grounded in local concerns over land, graves, and inheritance'. 49 According to David Apter, Wamala was 'the first Katikiro to reckon with public opinion', harnessing widespread fear and distrust of missionaries and administrators in his attempt to achieve political reform.…”

Learning leadership? Elite Ugandan students and late colonial politics

“…Notable men had faith in the power of education for their sons, and invested heavily in both the construction and growth of elite institutions within Buganda such as King's College Budo, and by sponsoring promising young men to study in England, Ceylon, South Africa and the United States. Unsurprisingly, both mission and protectorate officials at times viewed this remarkable level of investment and achievement with suspicion, and patronizingly disparaged high-achieving educated Ugandans who earned degrees and failed to fit easily into the racial hierarchies of the empire (Earle 2012). The success of these nineteenth-century leaders, however, was essential to the emergence of new forms of education in the twentieth century, funded by local resources and building on older precedents about how education worked.…”