Holly Elisabeth Hanson

To Speak and Be Heard

Seeking Good Government in Uganda, ca. 1500-2015

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through detailed archival research, Hanson reveals the origins of Ugandaâ s strategies for good governmentâ assembly, assent, and powerful giftsâ and explains why East African party politics often fail.

Produktdetails

• New African Histories
• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 149mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780821424919
• ISBN-10: 0821424912
• Artikelnr.: 63459802

Autorenporträt

Holly Elisabeth Hanson is professor emerita of history at Mount Holyoke College, where she taught African history for more than two decades. She is currently the coordinator of the research department of the Baha'i World Center in Haifa, Israel. She is the author of Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda, numerous journal essays, and several books on community-based social change.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Long History of Political Voice
Chapter 1. Building Polities through Assent, Assembly, and Voice in Ancient
East Africa
Chapter 2. Incorporating Strangers in the Time of Two Lukikos
Chapter 3. Seeking Justice at the Palace and the Lake
Chapter 4. The Modernity That Might Have Been: How Ugandans Lost Mechanisms
of Accountability in the Transition to Independence
Chapter 5. The Pretense of Assent and the Power of Assembly in the Time of
Amin
Conclusion: The Shape of the Present
Notes
Bibliography
Index