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Title: | Reflections on early interlacustrine chronology: an essay in source criticism |
Author: | Henige, David P. |
Year: | 1974 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 27-46 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | history chronology |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/180368 |
Abstract: | The sources for the early history of the interlacustrine area consist of traditions recorded after 1880, but primarily after 1930. Major accounts allegedly based on traditions have been compiled for Buganda, Bunyoro and Nkoro (Ankole). This paper seeks, through textual analysis, to demonstrate that some of the roost important of the sources have been influenced by the content of earlier writings and by each other, and that their corroborative value is very small. Problems of particular interest are: the alleged contemporaneitv. of Nakibinge of Buganda, Olimi Twitamahanga of Bunyoro, and Ntare Nyabugaro of Nkore; the Biharwe eclipse and its ascribed dates; the value for chronology of the accounts of Nyoro invasions southward. While the questions of the Bacwezi, the Nkoro capitals, and the Nyoro tombs have been taken into account, specific attention has not been paid to them. This paper suggests possible, alternatives to the reconstruction of early lacustrine history. A reassessment of the traditional sources may illuminate more clearly in what milieu the traditional historiography; of the interlacustrine region developed. Notes, Summary. |