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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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Jacob, Godfrey AGEA, Akais OKIA Clement, Bonton OBAA Bernard, Munga KIMONDO James, ISUBIKALU Prossy, Dino, WOISO rew, OBUA Joseph, and TEKLEHAIMANOT Zewge. "Market conduct and performance of wild and semi-wild food plants traded in Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, Uganda." African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 7, no. 6 (June 30, 2013): 457–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/ajest2013.1512.

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Godfrey Ag, Jacob, James Munga Kimo, Clement Akais Okia, Refaat Atalla Ahmed Aboh, Joseph Obua, John Hall, and Zewge Teklehaima. "Contribution of Wild and Semi-Wild Food Plants to Overall Household Diet in Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, Uganda." Agricultural Journal 6, no. 4 (April 1, 2011): 134–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3923/aj.2011.134.144.

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Doyle, Shane. "From Kitara to the Lost Counties: Genealogy, Land and Legitimacy in the Kingdom of Bunyoro, Western Uganda." Social Identities 12, no. 4 (July 2006): 457–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504630600823684.

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Jacob, Godfrey AGEA, Bonton OBAA Bernard, Munga KIMONDO James, Akais OKIA Clement, ISUBIKALU Prossy, Dino, WOISO rew, OBUA Joseph, and TEKLEHAIMANOT Zewge. "Impediments, opportunities and strategies to enhance trade of wild and semi-wild food plants in Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, Uganda." African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 7, no. 6 (June 30, 2013): 472–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/ajest13.1513.

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Kahunde, Samuel. "Repatriating Archival Sound Recordings to Revive Traditions: The Role of the Klaus Wachsmann Recordings in the Revival of the Royal Music of Bunyoro-Kitara, Uganda." Ethnomusicology Forum 21, no. 2 (August 2012): 197–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2012.689471.

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Maxon, Robert M. "Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro: Population & Environment in Western Uganda 1860–1955. By Shane Doyle. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp.xii, 276. $49.95.)." Historian 70, no. 4 (December 1, 2008): 762–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00227_7.x.

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Connah, Graham. "The salt of Bunyoro: seeking the origins of an African Kingdom." Antiquity 65, no. 248 (September 1991): 479–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0008008x.

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Excavations at the salt-making village of Kibiro, on the Ugandan shore of Lake Albert in East Africa, suggest that an important part of the economy of the Kingdom of Bunyoro originated early in the present millennium. The predominance of roulette-decorated pottery, in particular the use of carved roulettes, indicates that Kibiro was first occupied by people with northern affinities, possibly from the upper Nile region or further west. Collectively, these findings provide important clues concerning the origins of the Kingdom of Bunyoro.

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Willis, Justin. "Shane Doyle, Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro: population and environment in western Uganda, 1860–1955. Nairobi: British Institute in Eastern Africa (pb £16.95 – 0 85255 431 1; hb £45.00 – 0 85255 432 X). 2006, 276 pp." Africa 77, no. 2 (May 2007): 293–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2007.77.2.293.

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HANSON, HOLLY. "DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS IN WESTERN UGANDA Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro: Population and Environment in Western Uganda 1860–1955. By SHANE DOYLE. Oxford: The British Institute in Eastern Africa, in association with James Currey, 2006. Pp. xii+276. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-432-6); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-431-9)." Journal of African History 48, no. 1 (March 2007): 167–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002185370700268x.

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Nakayi, Rose, and Annika Witte. "Making Cultural Heritage Claims on Profitable Land: The Case of the Ngassa Wells in Uganda’s Oil Region." Africa Spectrum 54, no. 3 (December 2019): 222–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002039720906247.

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In the exploration phase of Uganda’s oil project, controversy arose regarding the drilling of wells on the grounds of important shrines of spirits of the adjacent Lake Albert. While the oil companies and the state looked at the market value of the land, the claimants emphasised its cultural heritage value, building a link to an international heritage discussion. This article argues that, while they have been barred from political influence on the oil project, cultural institutions such as the Bunyoro Kingdom and the claimants in the village near the controversial well used cultural heritage as a vantage point to get their voices heard and to gain negotiating power in the project. The article shows how widening of the definition of cultural heritage – which means dropping a bias for built infrastructure – has put culture alongside politics, economics, and the environment as an important factor to consider in extractive projects.

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Whyte, Susan Reynolds, and Michael A. Whyte. "Children's Children: Time and Relatedness in Eastern Uganda." Africa 74, no. 1 (February 2004): 76–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2004.74.1.76.

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AbstractThis article brings two analytic perspectives to bear on temporal aspects of relations to children's children. The first, which we call processual time, is the long-term, ‘experience-distant’, view of household developmental cycles over a historical period. Beginning with this approach, we describe the arrangements of family and marriage that provide the framework for people's relations to the children of their sons and of their daughters in Bunyole County, eastern Uganda. Household survey material collected over thirty years in one village shows an increase in the number of grandchildren being cared for, as expected in an era when parents are dying of AIDS. However, it also qualifies the hegemonic historical narrative of AIDS by showing that other factors have been and still are at work in influencing the patterns of caring for grandchildren. The second analytical perspective is that of the intersubjective time of shared biographies and common experience. The emphasis here is on the ‘experience-near’ qualities and practice of relatedness as they are lived and talked about in the lifeworlds of social actors. They are evident in the dyadic relations between grandparents and grandchildren and also in the ways that these relations are embedded in other connections to children and in-laws. When grandparents take on the care of a daughter's children, they are mindful of the past, present and future of her relation to her husband and his family. The concept of ‘intersubjective time’ points to the intertwining of the lives of three generations and provides a rich complement to the more abstract concern with developmental cycles and historical processes.

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MACLEAN, RACHEL. "SALT AND THE STATE Kibiro. The Salt of Bunyoro Past and Present. By GRAHAM CONNAH. London: Memoirs of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 13, 1996. Pp. xv + 224. £37.50 (ISBN 0-500-872566-08-1)." Journal of African History 38, no. 1 (March 1997): 123–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853796446904.

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The latest monograph produced by the British Institute in Eastern Africa is essentially the report of Connah's archaeological work at the Later Iron Age site of Kibiro, which lies on the Ugandan shores of Lake Albert. The relatively rapid publication of this fieldwork (undertaken in 1989 and 1990) and the high production values evident in the volume (if one excuses the spelling mistakes on the back of the dust jacket) are to be congratulated. The volume is an attractive one, well illustrated throughout with a combination of photographs, figures and tables.

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Whyte, Susan Reynolds. "Going Home? Belonging and Burial in the Era of AIDS." Africa 75, no. 2 (May 2005): 154–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2005.75.2.154.

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AbstractIn Eastern Uganda, a married woman should be buried at her husband's home, raising questions such as: which husband? were they really married? These questions become urgent when a woman dies at the home of her parents or brothers, a situation that has become increasingly common as women ill with AIDS seek care from their families of orientation. In Bunyole, the ways in which a woman ‘belongs’ to two different homes are brought out as discussions proceed about where she should be buried. This article uses accounts of cases where there was uncertainty about the burial site to show how people justify the choice of a ‘final home’. ‘Arguments of cultural rules’ are used to underwrite demands about bridewealth, while ‘arguments of affection’ are put forward in sympathy for women who needed care or were loved by children. The location of the grave provides a vantage point for looking at how home and marriage take on significance for women in distress. The explanations provide a window on the ways families reason about rights, obligation, virtue and compassion. They show the enduring importance of a woman's natal family; in the era of AIDS, mortally ill women are usually cared for by parents and siblings even though their corpses may be carried to a husband's home for burial.

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"XIII: THE MOLSON COMMISSION: UGANDA AND THE LOST COUNTIES OF BUNYORO: 1961." Camden Fifth Series 57 (May 17, 2019): 205–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960116319000186.

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Soon after I left Ghana I found myself with another and much more difficult and challenging assignment in Africa. This was a mission to Uganda to sort out the differences between the Kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro before the country became independent in October 1962.

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Masum, Ahmad. "UGANDA: A Country Profile." Journal of International Studies, January 6, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/jis.8.2012.7931.

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Uganda lies in the heart of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is situated in East Africa and occupies an area of 241,038 sq km (roughly twice the size of the state of Pennsylvania) and its population is about 35,873,253 (CIA World Factbook, 2012). Uganda is bordered by Tanzania and Rwanda to the south, Democratic Republic of Congo to the west, South Sudan to the north, and Kenya to the east. Uganda is a landlocked country and occupies most of the Lake Victoria Basin, which was formed by the geological shifts that created the Rift Valley during the Pleistocene era. Uganda was a British colony and became an independent- sovereign nation in 1962 without a bloody struggle. Several ethnic groups reside in the country i.e. Baganda, Banyankole, Bahima, Bakiga, Bunyoro, Batoro, Basoga, Bagisu, Langi, Acholi, Lugbara, Karamojong and others. English is the official language by virtue of Article 6(1) of the 1995 Constitution and Swahili is also widely spoken especially in the urban areas. Uganda has no State religion. As a country, Uganda has witnessed some positive development in the area of security. The government managed to plant the seeds of peace in the north by defeating the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony.

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"Crisis & decline in Bunyoro: population & environment in western Uganda, 1860-1955." Choice Reviews Online 44, no. 09 (May 1, 2007): 44–5186. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.44-5186.

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"‘THE CHILD OF DEATH’: PERSONAL NAMES AND PARENTAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS MORTALITY IN BUNYORO, WESTERN UGANDA, 1900–2005 – CORRIGENDUM." Journal of African History 50, no. 1 (March 2009): 123–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002185370900423x.

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