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LOST COUNTIES (CONTEXT AND HISTORY (Ancient core of Bunyoro kingdom -…

- - - - Dunbar - no opportunity for discussing peace terms after that
  - - - in 50s could be argued that chiefs were more concerned w that than advancing nation
    - - heightened impression of terminal, long-term decline - Doyle
- - - - obviously constructed in competition w Buganda - Doyle
  - - - Abolitionists, thought could be reasoned with
      - Hold Britain to moral values that had been established
      - indirect rule - should be under native leaders but not
      - about to grant independence on basis of self-determination - should apply it unilaterally
    - - Dunbar - British were misled by Ganda into seeing them as an implacable enemy
      - Doyle - Kabarega willing to recognise soveriegnty of British, just not Mwanga - didn't make effort to treat w him
  - - - Petitions based on archival research - use of history
    - - Court cases, lobbying on nationalist politicians
      - Both sides had v high calibre of lawyers
      - Nyoro lawyers argue that Nyoro would never be content under Ganda rule, discrimination extra bad on top of illegal land transfer
      - 1921 Mubende Bunyoro Committee set up to campaign, sent petitions
        
        Leaders repeatedly persecuted and intimidated
    - - Couldn'tt undo - too late
      - Signing of 1933 Agreement Mukama made formal public statement reiterating claim to counties - again in 55
        
        1933 referred to Bunyoro-Kitara
        
        Confirmed Winyi and his line as rightful rulers
  - - - Runyoro was subsequently banned in courts, schools and churches
      - encouraged and funded by Bunyoro's kingdom govt
- - - - Obote's govt w Ganda declining as it ended ties w Kabaka Yekka
      - Kabaka refused to sign decalaration, repeatedly attempts to block referendum
        
        When results came out here were riots in Kampala - led to believed by Lukiiko that a referendum would never happen anyway
        
        Buganda govt falls, eventually leads to deposition of kabaka in 66, abolition of kingdoms in 67 and the suppression of ethnic politics in Uganda - Doyle
      - Beattie claims issue ended there
- - - - Increase in slurs against people in power
  - - - Some Ganda would only sell land to people w Ganda names
    - - If defended or gave evidence in Runyoro could be prosecuted for contempt of court
      - chiefs could arrest + detain people without charge indefinitely
- - - - Emphasis on pre-colonial power and prestige