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Africa ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
L. P. Mair
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Social Research ◽  
African Studies ◽  
East African

Economic Development Research Project, Makerere University College, Kampala

1965 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-283
Author(s):  
Paul G. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
East African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
University College

This Project was initiated two years ago with three main objectives: (i) fundamentally, to carry out a coherent set of applied research studies of important economic development problems of the East African countries; (ii) to contribute East African readings and research experience to university teaching of economics; and (iii) to assist the East African Governments in using economic research for development planning. Organisationally, the Project is simply a group of economists working on related topics under the leadership of the director, Professor P. G. Clark. The group forms the economics section of the East African Institute of Social Research (which has similar sections for sociology and anthropology and for political science); the Institute in turn is the social sciences research department of Makerere University College. The four-year project is now in mid-course, and it can be fairly said that at least some progress has been made toward all three objectives.

Erieza Kintu's Sulutani Anatoloka: A Nineteenth-Century Historical Memoir From Buganda

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 313-319
Author(s):  
John A. Rowe
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Social Research ◽  
New Order ◽  
Private Land ◽  
East African ◽  
Makerere University ◽  
Cooperative Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

An 85-year-old villager named Erieza Kintu died at Kabubu in the county of Bulemezi, kingdom of Buganda, sometime in 1965. His passing was virtually unnoticed, except by relatives and a few neighbors. Through my research trips between 1962 and 1964 had on several occasions brought me to within a few miles of his house, I never met Kintu. Yet he is one of my best sources for the history of Buganda in the 1890s. Indeed, his memory of the so called “rebellion” by Kabaka Mwanga against the British in 1897 is the single best source I know, particularly valuable as an “insider” eyewitness participant. Even more importantly, unlike the earlier “official” histories of Mwanga's uprising, Kintu's view is from the point of the losers in the conflict—those who had resisted the new order of Christianity, private land tenure, and protectorate status within the British empire.As so often happens with the vanquished, their history was suppressed by the victors, who—through the control of schooling and the printing press— ensured that only their own version of the conflict would become history. Yet somehow, at the age of almost seventy years the non-literate Erieza Kintu managed to dictate his oral memoirs to the manager of the Baganda Cooperative Society Press, and the result was Sulutani Anatoloka, a printed pamphlet that went on sale in Kampala priced one shilling a copy. After a few days no doubt the small edition was sold out and disappeared from view. Fortunately, one copy wound up in the hands of a prominent anthropologist from the University of Chicago, Lloyd Fallers, who was director of the East African Institute of Social Research at Makerere University in the early 1950s. Years later, when Fallers returned to Chicago, he brought back the pamphlet and offered me a photocopy, which I translated from Luganda into English in 1964. At that time I knew nothing about the author, except what was printed in his memoir covering the years from 1892 to 1899, nor did I know the circumstances surrounding the publication, or even the date when it had been printed. So here was a mysterious, unique, and potentially invaluable historical source—if only one could investigate its provenance.

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