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Journal articles on the topic "Bunyoro (Uganda)"

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Doyle, Shane. "The Language of Flowers: Knowledge, Power and Ecology in Precolonial Bunyoro." History in Africa 30 (2003): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361541300003168.

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The absence of writing from indigenous sub-Saharan cultures has often been identified as one of the key elements that distinguished African societies from those of Europe and Asia. Literacy permits an extension of the range of human intercourse, increased bureaucratic and commercial complexity, and an enlargement and stabilization of political scale. Some scholars suggest that it also encourages a more abstract and detached way of thinking about present-day problems. Writing is, moreover, commonly assumed to transform people's understanding of the past. The evidence, therefore, that the kingdom of Bunyoro in western Uganda possessed an indigenous form of writing is potentially of great significance. In this paper I examine the limited evidence that such a method of communication did exist, before analyzing its function and importance. I will argue that the use of a coded language of flowers in Bunyoro requires a reassessment of how power was exercised in precolonial interlacustrine kingdoms, of the nature of environmental knowledge in hierarchical African societies, and of Bunyoro's place in the historiography of east Africa.It is especially interesting that the form of writing that developed in Bunyoro was based on a floral code, as the absence of both writing and flowers in African culture have been used by Jack Goody as evidence of African culture's separateness from that of “Eurasia.” Goody has written that African peoples generally did not make significant use of flowers in worship, gift-giving or decoration. He does “not know of any indigenous use of odours,” nor of plants playing a role in stories or myths. This is thought to be because of Africa's “simple” agriculture, “non-complex” societies and absence of a “culture of luxury.”

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Green, Elliott D. "Understanding the Limits to Ethnic Change: Lessons from Uganda's “Lost Counties”." Perspectives on Politics 6, no. 3 (August 18, 2008): 473–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592708081231.

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The historically constructed nature of ethnicity has become a widely accepted paradigm in the social sciences. Scholars have especially have focused on the ways modern states have been able to create and change ethnic identities, with perhaps the strongest case studies coming from colonial Africa, where the gap between strong states and weak societies has been most apparent. I suggest, however, that in order to better understand how and when ethnic change occurs it is important to examine case studies where state-directed ethnic change has failed. To rectify this oversight I examine the case of the “lost counties” of Uganda, which were transferred from the Bunyoro kingdom to the Buganda kingdom at the onset of colonial rule. I show that British attempts to assimilate the Banyoro residents in two of the lost counties were an unmitigated failure, while attempts in the other five counties were successful. I claim that the reason for these differing outcomes lies in the status of the two lost counties as part of the historic Bunyoro homeland, whereas the other five counties were both geographically and symbolically peripheral to Bunyoro. The evidence here thus suggests that varying ethnic attachments to territory can lead to differing outcomes in situations of state-directed assimilation and ethnic change.

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Willis, Justin. "A portrait for the Mukama: Monarchy and empire in Colonial Bunyoro, Uganda." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 34, no. 1 (March 2006): 105–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086530500412140.

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Walter, Bastien, Yves Géraud, Yann Hautevelle, Marc Diraison, and François Raisson. "Fluid Circulations at Structural Intersections through the Toro-Bunyoro Fault System (Albertine Rift, Uganda): A Multidisciplinary Study of a Composite Hydrogeological System." Geofluids 2019 (February 27, 2019): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/8161469.

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Regional fault structures along rift basins play a crucial role in focusing fluid circulation in the upper crust. The major Toro-Bunyoro fault system, bounding to the east of the Albertine Rift in western Uganda, hosts local fluid outflow zones within the faulted basement rocks, one of which is the Kibiro geothermal prospect. This major fault system represents a reliable example to investigate the hydrogeological properties of such regional faults, including the local structural setting of the fluid outflow zones. This study investigated five sites, where current (i.e., geothermal springs, hydrocarbon seeps) and fossil (i.e., carbonate veins) fluid circulation is recognized. This work used a multidisciplinary approach (structural interpretation of remote sensing images, field work, and geochemistry) to determine the role of the different macroscale structural features that may control each studied fluid outflow zones, as well as the nature and the source of the different fluids. The local macroscale structural setting of each of these sites systematically corresponds to the intersection between the main Toro-Bunyoro fault system and subsidiary oblique structures. Inputs from three types of fluid reservoirs are recognized within this fault-hosted hydrogeological system, with “external basin fluids” (i.e., meteoric waters), “internal basin fluids” (i.e., hydrocarbons and sediment formation waters), and deep-seated crustal fluids. This study therefore documents the complexity of a composite hydrogeological system hosted by a major rift-bounding fault system. Structural intersections act as local relative permeable areas, in which significant economic amounts of fluids preferentially converge and show surface manifestations. The rift-bounding Toro-Bunyoro fault system represents a discontinuous barrier for fluids where intersections with subsidiary oblique structures control preferential outflow zones and channel fluid transfers from the rift shoulder to the basin, and vice versa. Finally, this work contributes to the recognition of structural intersections as prime targets for exploration of fault-controlled geothermal systems.

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DOYLE, SHANE. "POPULATION DECLINE AND DELAYED RECOVERY IN BUNYORO, 1860–1960." Journal of African History 41, no. 3 (September 2000): 429–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700007751.

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RAPID population growth is commonly depicted as one of the greatest problems facing modern Africa. For decades, the tendency of birth rates to exceed mortality rates has prompted predictions of land shortage, resource depletion and mass starvation. Underlying causes of high fertility are hypothesized to have been an unusually high demand for human agricultural labour, ‘traditional religious pronatalism’ and a ‘horror of barrenness’, while in some areas the later colonial period saw a shortening of the durations of post-partum sexual abstinence and lactation. Mortality decline from the 1920s is commonly linked to the establishment of cash crop economies, networks of roads and railways, and the diffusion of western medicine, maternity facilities, missionary activity and primary education. Yet the empirical evidence supporting this model of population growth is contradictory. Areas such as Buhaya, Buganda and Bunyoro should have experienced rapid demographic expansion by natural increase in the colonial period according to dominant theories but instead experts in the early decades of this century feared the extinction of the Haya, Ganda and Nyoro. This paper will attempt to explain why population decline among the Nyoro was more severe than anywhere else in colonial Uganda, and probably East Africa.

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DOYLE, SHANE. "‘THE CHILD OF DEATH’: PERSONAL NAMES AND PARENTAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS MORTALITY IN BUNYORO, WESTERN UGANDA, 1900–2005." Journal of African History 49, no. 3 (November 2008): 361–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853708003678.

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ABSTRACTTraditional sources tell us relatively little about how Africans perceived death in the past. In some societies, however, changing attitudes towards mortality can be identified from the names which were given to babies. In Bunyoro almost a third of the names that were given during the colonial period referred to death. The declining frequency of death-related names from the 1940s offers significant insights into the impact of Christianity, education and population growth on the Nyoro's worldview. That death-related names did not re-emerge in the era of AIDS is a significant indication of how the pandemic has been viewed in western Uganda.

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Carpenter, G. D. Hale. "PSEUDACRAEA EURYTUS (L.) AND ITS MODELS IN THE BUDONGO FOREST, BUNYORO, WESTERN UGANDA (LEPIDOPTERA)." Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series A, General Entomology 11, no. 1-2 (April 2, 2009): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3032.1936.tb00853.x.

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Doyle, Shane. "The Cwezi-Kubandwa Debate: Gender, Hegemony and Pre-Colonial Religion in Bunyoro, Western Uganda." Africa 77, no. 4 (November 2007): 559–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2007.77.4.559.

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AbstractThe Cwezi-kubandwa cult was the most prominent form of religious belief in the interlacustrine region of East Africa during the pre-colonial period. It has long been regarded as providing ideological support to monarchical regimes across the region. Recently, though, scholars have contrasted the hegemonic ambitions of the state with evidence that Cwezi-kubandwa also provided opponents of pre-colonial authority structures with both ideological and organizational resources. In particular historians of the cult have hypothesized that Cwezi-kubandwa offered women a refuge from patriarchal political and domestic institutions, and that Cwezi-kubandwa was dominated by women in terms of its leadership, membership and idioms. This article challenges the new orthodoxy by suggesting that both traditional religion's hegemonic and counter-hegemonic roles may have been over-estimated. A re-examination of the Nyoro sources indicates instead that Cwezi-kubandwa was far from homogeneous and dominant, that kubandwa was not obviously oppositional to other, supposedly male-dominated, religious beliefs, and that Cwezi-kubandwa brought female exploitation as well as empowerment. These findings require either a re-evaluation of the nature of Cwezi-kubandwa across the region, or recognition that the cult was much more geographically diverse than has hitherto been believed.

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Nakalembe, Immaculate, and JD Kabasa. "Fatty and amino acids composition of selected wild edible mushrooms of Bunyoro sub-region, Uganda." African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development 13, no. 01 (January 31, 2013): 7225–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.56.11945.

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Reid, R. "Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro: Population and environment in western Uganda, 1860 1955, by Shane Doyle." African Affairs 106, no. 425 (October 1, 2007): 736–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adm050.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Bunyoro (Uganda)"

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Doyle, Shane Declan. "An environmental history of the kingdom of Bunyoro in western Uganda, from c.1860 to 1940." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272008.

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KIZITO, NYANZI. "The Political economy of Land grabbing in Oil resource areas. The Uganda Albertine Graben." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-46998.

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Abstract There has been an increase in land grabbing in the world over the years and the trend seems to be increasing in the same direction. Whereas, the phenomenon is said to be happening across all continents except Antarctica, in this Africa is the primary target. Uganda too has not been spared and the discovery of oil in 2006 added an insult to an injury. Though, the phenomenon has lived with the world for some good time, it continues to happen with less efforts being made to curb it. As a result, a study was carried out to gain a deeper understanding of the drivers of land grabbing in Uganda’s Albertine Graben. It was a desk study and employed an abductive approach though some primary data was also collected to back it up. The political economy approach was employed to understand the different political and economic dynamics involved in land grabbing. The study found out the issue of absentee land lords and the discovery of oil in 2006 as the main reasons that explain the occurrence of the phenomenon something that is different from the many scholars’ view that agricultural reasons are the main cause. Land grabbing was further seen as mainly negative as it leads to loss of economic livelihoods, lack of cooking energy, displacement of people among others. The study learned that massive sensitization of the people about their rights; strict implementation of the existing laws by the government would help to reduce or solve the problem. Key words, Land grabbing, land acquisition, Albertine Graben, Bunyoro, political economy approach.

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Kahunde, Samuel. "Our royal music does not fade : an exploration of the revival and significance of the royal music and dance of Bunyoro-Kitara, Uganda." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574557.

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After the kingdoms of Uganda were abolished in 1967, the royal music and dance of Bunyoro-Kitara kingdom was not performed, and remained obscure both locally and internationally, because it had been little documented. However, when the kingdoms were allowed to operate again in 1993, a process of revival started. This study has been undertaken with the aim of understanding the royal music and dance of Bunyoro-Kitara with regard to its revival, characteristics, and significance to the Banyoro people. The study has been guided by the following research questions: What are the characteristics of the royal music and dance of Bunyoro-Kitara? What does the royal music and dance of Bunyoro-Kitara kingdom express with regard to social structure and culture? What is the role of the royal music and dance of Bunyoro-Kitara? How does the revival of the royal music and dance of Bunyoro-Kitara compare with other revivals? This study was carried out in 2008 and 2009 using fieldwork methods of inquiry, such as participant-observation, interviews, personal communication, and questionnaires. The following findings have been generated: The royal music and dance of Bunyoro-Kitara consists of different genres which include the amakondere, the Empango, the entajemerwa, the entimbo, the kaijwiire/timbeeta, the kyarubanga, the enseegu, and the enaanga; it is different from the non-royal music and dance with regard to form, design, organisation, styles, names, venues, and accompaniment; it expresses the history, social structure, culture, and perspectives about authenticity of Bunyoro-Kitara kingdom; it plays communicative, symbolic, and aesthetic roles; and its revival differs from many other studied revivals, and it offers counter-examples to current revival theories proposed by other scholars. Overall, this study provides new knowledge about the royal music and dance of Bunyoro-Kitara, as well as furthering scholarly understandings of the relationships between music and social structure, of authenticity in music, and of revivals.

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Agea, Jacob Godfrey. "Use and potential of wild and semi-wild food plants in alleviating household proverty and food insecurity : A case study of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, Uganda." Thesis, Bangor University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528317.

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Books on the topic "Bunyoro (Uganda)"

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British Institute in Eastern Africa., ed. Crisis & decline in Bunyoro: Population & environment in Western Uganda, 1860-1955. Oxford: James Currey, 2006.

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Doyle, Shane. Crisis & decline in Bunyoro: Population & environment in western Uganda 1860-1955. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005.

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Situational analysis and community needs assessment of Bunyoro-North West Uganda: Promoting ethnic coexistence and building peace in oil producing communities. Kampala, Uganda: East African Institute of Governance and Conflict Management, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Bunyoro (Uganda)"

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"1. Rede und Gegenrede über Bunyoro-Kitara." In Die Rückkehr der Könige von Uganda, 51–68. transcript-Verlag, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839423844.51.

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Robertshaw, Peter. "Seeking and keeping power in Bunyoro-Kitara, Uganda." In Beyond Chiefdoms, 124–35. Cambridge University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511558238.011.

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