The Bakonjo‐Baamba and Uganda

Since the colonial days of the nineteenth century, there has been an extended campaign by regionally dominant peoples to integrate and assimilate the Bakonjo and Baamba peoples of the Ruwemori Mountains of Uganda. The Bakonjo and Baamba’ have reacted to this statist policy with a variety of responses ranging from resistance to cooperation. This article discusses the interaction of Uganda with the Bakonjo and Baamba—the struggle between an indigenous people seeking autonomy and a state attempting to usurp indigenous political power in the context of a broad “nation‐building” process and sometimes under the pretext of a national security crisis. An examination of the historical background, precolonial political structure, and stages of colonial conquest in the Ruwenzori Mountains serves to illustrate the long‐term relationship that has resulted in the steady erosion of Bakonjo‐Baamba identity and power

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Autonomy · Colonialism · CONQUEST · Context (archaeology · Ethnology · Identity (music · Indigenous · National identity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Pretext · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · State (computer science · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · History · Law

• Pastoral politics in the northeast periphery in Uganda

  Open Access•Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler, Mustafa Mirzeler et al.•The Journal of Modern African…•2000

  Incluir item

• The specification of ethnic cleavages and ethnopolitical groups for the analysis of democratic competition in contemporary Africa

  James R Scarritt, Shaheen Mozaffar•Nationalism and Ethnic Politics•1999

  Incluir item

• Follow the hand that feeds you? The effects of non‐governmental cash transfers on citizenship

  Open Access•Filippo Grisolia, Sara Dewachter et al.•Social Policy and Administration•2023

  Incluir item

• The Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda

  Open Access•Moses Khisa, Sabastian Rwengabo et al.•African Studies Review•2022

  Incluir item

• The Shrinking Political Arena

  Nelson Kasfir•Shrinking Political Arena•1976

  Incluir item

• Local Government and Politics in Uganda

  Geoffrey F Engholm, Fred G Burke•International Journal Canada s…•1965

  Incluir item

• Beyond the Mountains of the Moon

  Robin Hallett, Edward H Winter•Geographical Journal•1966

  Incluir item