Drawing on insights from a variety of disciplines - history, historical linguistics, archaeology, and anthropology - Neil Kodesh argues that the domains of polities and public healing were intimately entwined in Buganda from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted throughout Buganda, Kodesh demonstrates how efforts to ensure collective prosperity and perpetuity - usually expressed in the language of health and healing - lay at the heart of community-building processes in Buganda. 280pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS.

When the African kingdom of Bunyoro announced it was to sue Britain for colonial abuses, officials on two continents scurried to consult century-old records of a forgotten corner of Uganda. At a time of renewed interest in the Britains colonial past, this book tells how Bunyoro's famous fighting king, Kabalega, put up a determined resistance to the incoming British. Bunyoro's reward, after the inevitable conquest, was decades of discrimination the effects of which are still felt. Index, bib, 148pp, UK . ITURI PUBLICATIONS.

Colonial rule triggered rapid population growth in most of Africa. Why then did Bunyoro suffer exceptionally low levels of fertility and high levels of mortality right through the colonial period? The crucial event was the invasion of Bunyoro by British forces in 1893. By 1899, when her resistance was finally broken, much of Bunyoro's best rangeland had been transferred to her neighbours, and what remained of the kingdom was largely depopulated and overrun by disease-bearing insects and game. As a consequence of this ecological disaster Bunyoro had the lowest livestock levels in colonial East Africa. The lack of livestock lay at the heart of the problems of malnutrition, low marriage rates, poverty and emigration that, in combination with high rates of sexually transmitted diseases, obstructed Bunyoro's demographic recovery for half a century. This book addresses a number of issues of contemporary relevance. It considers the conflict between traditional African rulers and the modern state, the relationship between demography and environmental change, the history of the STDs, and the impact of cash-cropping on rural inequality. Index, bib, tables, maps, b/w illus, 278pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Today's development agenda is ever more focused on results. This book raises questions about how results and outcomes are evaluated, and reflects on notions of 'success' in colonial and contemporary development policy. The first part of the book examines colonial attempts in Kigezi, in south-western Uganda, to introduce cash crops, soil conservation practices, and tenure reforms. Throughout these chapters the dominant theme concerns the enduring charac-ter of smallholder farming conducted in the context of wider economic possibilities. The second part of the book explores broader changes in Kigezi, with two restudies of colonial research. Index, bib, apps, charts, 258pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

During the 1890s, the Scramble for Africa created the new country of Uganda. This inland territory carved out by British agents first encompassed some 20-30 African kingdoms. Anthony Low's new study examines how and why the British were able to dominate these rulerships and establish a colonial government. 382pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

In this re-publication of the 1973 original, Mamdani analyses the causes of Amin's actions and discusses the future prospects for Asians in Britain. From Citizen to Refugee describes the feelings experienced by the authors fellow Asians, and tells of the camps which developed their own political and social culture. With a new preface. 104pp, UK. PAMBAZUKA.

A new interpretation of British colonialism in Uganda, specifically during the period shortly before and after the Second World War. The author uses new data and sources to remodel the image of British and Ugandan relations. Index, refs, notes, 366pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Traces the history of the Banyankore from earliest times to the year 1914 and is the first history of this region to be published in English. Much of the material was originally published in various volumes of UGANDA JOURNAL. Dr. Morris served for three years as a District Officer in Ankole, and studied the historyand the language of the Banyankore, becoming in the process one of a very few British officers who became fluent in Runyankore. His profound knowledge of the language facilitated extensive fieldwork among the Banyankore elders. B/w illus, 76pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Reprint of a classic text. The kingdom of Nkore, Western Uganda came into existence around the beginning of the sixteenth century and this book traces this history on the basis of oral accounts handed down until the coming of the Europeans during the last decade of the nineteenth century. Includes material on contemporary Nkore religious beliefs and practices and clan organization. Index, bib, maps, apps, b/w illus, 292pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Lying on the boundary between the lowland forests of the Congo basin and West Africa and the savannahs of East Africa, Uganda's forests and their management are of particular interest in the field of tropical forestry and ecological management of an environment. Tables, ix, 169pp, UK. COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT.

A study of the creation of Uganda and the role of Semei Kakanguru. Index, notes, 310pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

A history combining oral traditions and myths in order to illuminate the development of the pre colonial kingdom of Buganda. Index, bib, notes, map, xv, 293pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0521894352

Portrays missionaries as contributing to the destruction of indigenous African values, using education and Christianity as their main tools. he states that missionaries trained chiefs, teachers, clerics and other persons who they used to sow the seeds of political, economic and cultural imperialism. BNS, 116pp, revised edition. UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

The people of Uganda have struggled to bury the worst of their history, but after the violent reign of Idi Amin, reminders were never far from view. A stray clue to the 1972 disappearance of a man named Eliphaz Laki led his son to a shallow grave. From there he found the three executioners, among them Amin's chief of staff. Laki's discovery resulted in a trial that painfully gave voice to a nation s past. At once a mystery, a historical accounting, and a portrait of modern Uganda, this is above all an exploration of how and whether the past can be laid to rest. 384pp, USA. PICADOR USA.

Brings together Pulford's two previous books on Uganda - Eating Uganda (1999) and Casualty of Empire (2007) - together with new material, including new chapters about Barotseland (in what is now Zambia) and Asante (Ghana) bring a comparative perspective to the Uganda experience of colonialism. The text is woven into a seamless whole to bring out the full drama of the contrasting fates of the two kingdoms, Buganda and Bunyoro. In the late Nineteenth century, one kingdom welcomed the British and the other fought them. The effects of those choices resonate in Uganda to this day. 317pp, UK. ITURI PUBLICATIONS.

Offers a complete historical picture of women's work in Uganda, tracing its development from pre-colonial times into the present and future. Setting these economic activities into a broader political, social, and cultural context, it provides the first general account of women's experiences amidst the changes that shaped the country. Prior to the 1970s relatively few Ugandan women brought in their own income, despite producing most of the food and craftwork that was taken to local markets. Educational expansion in the 1950s and 1960s were years of gradual evolution for women and their work, with many employed as lower level teachers or nurses. Since the 1970s there have been a number of dramatic changes which have led to many more women earning their own income: high mortality of men from conflict and HIV/AIDS, increased migration of women into urban areas, the collapse of the state-controlled economy and the emergence of a magendo economy, the development of a free market economy within a system of global capitalism, deepening poverty through Structural Adjustment Programmes, and the expansion of women's roles in many areas. Index, bib, apps, maps, 308pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.