Kingship and State The Buganda Dynasty |
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| Author:
| Wrigley, Christopher |
| Series title: | African Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-47370-5 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1996 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $139.00 |
Book Description:
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The precolonial kingdom of Buganda has long attracted scholarly interest, though historians have had to rely on oral traditions. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology.
The precolonial kingdom of Buganda has long attracted scholarly interest, though historians have had to rely on oral traditions. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in this 1996 book Christopher Wrigley endeavours to show that the stories which appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology.