Court records in #Buganda’s native courts were not just legal documents — they were sites of knowledge-making. Sauda Nabukenya shows how truth, justice, & social order were negotiated through testimony & community.

https://gtw.hypotheses.org/31635

#AfricanHistory #LegalArchives #ColonialLaw #SocialJustice

Picture of Kabaka Mutesa II, the king of #buganda and a group of #refugee children from #poland in the camp in #Koja #Uganda in 1944

Just found it in the #piasa #archives in #ny

@histodons @africanstudies

“….#Buganda compelled #Roosevelt to rethink his #fundamental_assumptions regarding #Black #progress & #civilization, altering not only his own #views on #Africans, but on #African_Americans. His #changed #attitude toward #race would reverberate through the US…”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/10/east-african-kingdom-theodore-roosevelt-00085962

https://archive.org/details/landed-obligation

Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda by Holly Elisabeth Hanson

Topics
#EastAfrica, #Buganda, #Africanhistory, #Africa, #Baganda, #BugandaKingdom, #KingdomofBuganda, #Mailo, #landtenure, #monarchies, #monarchy, #colonialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #Uganda, #Kabaka, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #slavetrade, #slaveraids, #slaveraiding, #arabslavetrade, #war, #land, #socialhierarchy, #socialhierarchies

Series: Social History of Africa
Publisher: Heinemann (Reed Elsevier)
ISBNs: 0325070377 (cloth), 0325070369 (paper)
ISSN: 1099-8098

https://archive.org/details/ugandastories

Stories from Uganda History by H.W.R. Hawes

Topics
#Uganda, #history, #education, #britishcolonialism, #Africa, #colonialism, #Baganda, #Buganda, #Bunyoro, #Banyoro, #Banyankole, #Ankole, #Bahima, #Busoga, #Acholi, #Luo, #Bakiga, #Alur, #Kiga, #Karamojong, #Lugbara, #Madi, #Màdí, #Iteso, #Teso

children's book for educational purposes published by Longman Uganda