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Title: | The Baganda Revolutionaries |
Author: | Rowe, John A. |
Year: | 1969 |
Periodical: | Tarikh |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 34-46 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | Buganda polity protectorates martyrs Church history Islamic history History and Exploration Politics and Government Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
Abstract: | The article describes the introduction of three new religions (Islam, Protestantism and Catholicism) among the pages at the courts of king Mutesa and king Mwanga (these pages were the student population of their day, training in the hope of graduating into the ranks of new chiefs), at the end of the previous century. After arbitrary periods of persecution and support, the Moslims expelled Mwanga in a bloodless coup and established an Islamic state. But in the early 1900's the government of Buganda was firmly in the hands of an oligarchy of Christian chiefs, supported by British colonial officials. The powers of these chiefs were gradually whittled away in the 1920's with the arrival of a horde of ambitious and highly critical youg colonial officials. Bibl., photographs. |