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
Court Cases as Epistemology: Reconstructing African History through Legal Archives
Sauda Nabukenya - Can court records be more than legal sources – can they serve as epistemological workshops for reconstructing African history? This essay argues that they can, drawing on more than 150,000 case files I discovered, organized, and catalogued from Buganda’s native courts and the High Court of Uganda.
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
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The Real Wakanda: How an East African Kingdom Changed Theodore Roosevelt and the Course of American Democracy
The fictional kingdom portrayed in the Marvel cinematic universe has a real-life antecedent — and its legacy reverberates throughout American and European history.
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
Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda : Holly Elisabeth Hanson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Series: Social History of AfricaPublisher: 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
Stories from Uganda History : H.W.R. Hawes : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
children's book for educational purposes published by Longman Uganda
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