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‘SUBTERRANEAN EVIL’ AND ‘TUMULTUOUS RIOT’ IN BUGANDA: AUTHORITY AND ALIENATION AT KING'S COLLEGE, BUDO, 1942

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2006

CAROL SUMMERS
CAROL SUMMERS
Affiliation:
University of Richmond
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Abstract

Staff petitions, sexual and disciplinary scandal and open riot pushed Buganda's leaders to close Budo College on the eve of Kabaka (King) Muteesa II's coronation. The upheaval at the school included a teachers' council that proclaimed ownership of the school, student leaders who manipulated the headmaster through scandal and school clubs and associations that celebrated affiliation over discipline. Instead of enacting and celebrating imperial partnership and order in complex, well-choreographed coronation rituals, the school's disruption delineated the fractures and struggles over rightful authority, order and patronage within colonial Buganda, marking out a future of tumultuous political transition.

Keywords

Ugandaeducationprotestpolitics
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of African History , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 93 - 113
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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