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Through detailed archival research, Hanson reveals the origins of Uganda's strategies for good government-assembly, assent, and powerful gifts-and explains why East African party politics often fail.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Long History of Political Voice
Chapter 1. Building Polities through Assent, Assembly, and Voice in Ancient East Africa
Chapter 2. Incorporating Strangers in the Time of Two Lukikos
Chapter 3. Seeking Justice at the Palace and the Lake
Chapter 4. The Modernity That Might Have Been: How Ugandans Lost Mechanisms of Accountability in the Transition to Independence
Chapter 5. The Pretense of Assent and the Power of Assembly in the Time of Amin
Conclusion: The Shape of the Present
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Holly Elisabeth Hanson is professor emerita of history at Mount Holyoke College, where she taught African history for more than two decades. She is currently the coordinator of the research department of the Baha'i World Center in Haifa, Israel. She is the author of Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda, numerous journal essays, and several books on community-based social change.
Summary
Through detailed archival research, Hanson reveals the origins of Uganda’s strategies for good government—assembly, assent, and powerful gifts—and explains why East African party politics often fail.
