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HISTORIOGRAPHY (COLONIAL (Nyoro (focused on lost counties - legitimise…

- - - - use history to justify claims
    - - use history to demonstrate pre-eminence
  - - - writing was the result and cause of political dominance
        
        Twaddle - counter-narrative difficult due to dispersion of Muslims and focus of Catholics on martyrdoms
      - placed Buganda at centre of history of region
        
        writes in Luganda - translation issues
        
        shaped historical debate for generations, summarised oral traditions. selective in content
      - the Customs of the Baganda = key text
      - results in unusually rich indigenous historiography - re-fight old wars
      - Miti constructs counter-history
    - - old generation want to establish place
  - - - written by political and cultural leaders w agendas but were also historians
      - but didnt go uncontested - debates in newspaper, journals etc
- - - - next 2 decades historical research in Uganda was impossible - scholars fled
  - - - African historians
    - - sociology - focus on aspects of state that are significant or interesting to them
    - - History of Uganda Project at Makere University
        
        helped to conceive of Uganda as a nation
  - - - new topics e.g. spiritualism, gender, health
        
        e.g. Summers and Budo
      - challenge of dominant ideas
      - migrated archives
    - - history is under-funded and not well thought of in Uganda
      - focus on STEM and progress
      - Museveni says too much focus on dark past + divisions
        
        control past = reduce dissidents
- - - - focus on religion and morality
      - focus on court