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Apr 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
On #GoodFriday I am reminded about Namirembe Cathedral's (St. Paul's) complicated past. Today's Cathedral is the fifth. The 1st was too small; 2nd was ruined by strong winds; 3rd was destroyed by termites, & the 4th was destroyed by fire on 23 Sept. 1910. These rare photos 1/5
were taken on the day of the fire. They show how the roof and infrastructure were utterly destroyed within 1 hour. The current Cathedral was rebuilt during the First World War. 2/5
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Apr 12
As part of the ongoing discussion following Guweddeko's article on Makerere, here are two of the oldest written proverbs that underscore Makerere's connections w/ 'amakerenda' and 'mulele': Emboozi k'egwe amakerenda: ng'omuyala atuuse we bafumba.'
Abakulu n'abakulu tibaleekaana: singa Nnamasole ayitirizza Mulerere; ekigerere we kifuluma kiwakanya kinnaakyo.
I am also happy to provide copies of Makerere's Ordinance of 1938:
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Apr 9
On #Uganda, #Russia & African Diplomacy. This thread follows @burke_jason's recent article @GuardianAfrica on African responses to #RussiaUkraineWar. It shows how the Muganda diplomat Semakulu Mulumba & I.K. Musazi utilized Soviet networks to advocate for Buganda land rights.
Throughout the 1940s & 1950s, Ugandan writers & diplomats thought deeply about Cold War propaganda. Okot p’Bitek used Wer pa Lawino to complicate Catholic claims that the UPC was merely a communist puppet party. In her lament, Lawino asserted,
‘His brother will bring Communism [so we are told]! [But] I do not know/What this animal is!’ Debates re: Soviet alliances were pronounced in the Catholic press, especially following Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Divini Redemptoris, a lengthy critique on ‘atheistic communism’ (1937).
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Mar 29
Did Benedicto Kiwanuka & @DPSecretariat1 set out to destroy the Kabakaship in 1950s Buganda? The KY-UPC alliance rode to power on this claim. But a growing body of photographic evidence shows this was not the case. Kiwanuka & Kabaka Muteesa II were dear friends. 🧵1/15 Image
Throughout the early 1960s, activists in KY and DP were engaged in a pamphleteer war. For their part, KY argued that Kiwanuka sought to eat the kingship. As one pamphlet read: 2/15 Image
"Therefore anything or anybody that tries to alienate the Baganda’s loyalty to his Highness the Kabaka is like the Nnabe (Termite-eater) which invades an ant-hill and drives out or kills not only the Queen but also the termites; the ant-hill becomes empty and desolate. 3/15 Image
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Mar 10
New Book! I am excited to announce that Decolonising State & Society in UG is forthcoming this year w/ @Boydell_Africa. The volume pulls together exciting contributions by Nakanyike Musisi, @edgarjacktaylor @kbrucelockhart, Tushabe wa Tushabe, @dave_the_prof @LethaEVictor, 1/7
Lydia Boyd, Ashley L. Greene, @moseskhisa, Genevieve Meyers, @florencebrisset @rileysline, Margaret Nagawa, Fiona Siegenthaler, Holly Hanson, Asiimwe B. Godfrey, @AdrianJBrowne @Kalinaki @rwakabukoza, & Danson S. Kahyana. The cover is beautifully designed by Canon Rumanzi. 2/7
BLURB: "Decolonization of knowledge has become a major issue in African Studies, brought to the fore by social movements from #RhodesMustFall to #BlackLivesMatter. 3/7
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Dec 2, 2021
W/ the passing of Nnamasole Margaret Nagawa Siwoza Muyanja, I express my deepest condolences to @BugandaOfficial. Kitalo nnyo! The Nnamasole was the heir of Nnamasole Sarah Nalule Kisosonkole, the mother of Kabaka Mutebi. 1/
One of the Kabaka's first appearances was at the funeral of his father, during which he was accompanied by the Nnamasole: bit.ly/3ddWAFQ 2/
Much earlier, the army of the Nnamasole had played a key role in the political developments of the 1890s, as the servants of the Nnamasole had for centuries. In his history of Kabaka Mwanga, Apolo Kaggwa recounted that on 'the 20th October Kabaka Chwa sent 3/
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Dec 2, 2021
By 1890, Buganda's political & religious revolution was being covered in the southern African press. The Lovedale Institution Press circulated Alexander Mackay's partisan political commentary in the Christian Express. In his closing sentences, 1/4
Mackay accentuated Kabaka Mwanga's request for missionaries, which was likely designed to echo Kabaka Muteesa I's earlier letters in the Daily Telegraph. 2/4
Much earlier, though, I notice that the Sesotho press used the phrase, 'ka baka'. Would anyone who reads/speaks Sesotho mind offering a brief translation of the phrase? It is taken from Leselinyana la Lesutho, first produced in 1864. I believe it only means, 'because.' 3/4
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