Kakungulu and the Creation of Uganda Eastern African Studies Twaddle, Michael

Kakungulu's extraordinary story - the freebooting warrior, ill at ease in his adopted home, who assembled a large number of ambitious warrior followers, and then established with them his own dominion in areas where overlordship had not prevailed before, only to be stripped in slow motion of the prominence he had attained...as a biography of nineteenth-century Africa it is all but without peer.' - Anthony Low in African Affairs '...is compelling, and throws fresh light on the construction of colonial states, the constraints on Ugandans and British officials alike, the nature of conversion and the import of literacy - and above all on the ways in which colonial and post-colonial historical narratives have been constructed.