DOI
10.1017/S002185370500085X
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 pro-claimed 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.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2006 Cambridge University Press. This article first appeared in Journal of African History 47:1 (2006), 93-113.
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Recommended Citation
Summers, Carol. "‘Subterranean Evil’ And ‘Tumultuous Riot’ In Buganda: Authority And Alienation At King's College, Budo, 1942." The Journal of African History 47, no. 01 (2006): 93-113. doi:10.1017/S002185370500085X.