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The monkey clan in Buganda
No full textThe history of Buganda tells us that all the clans-found in Buganda started during the reign of Kabaka Kintu. Kabaka Kintu was the first Kabaka who had a settled administration of Buganda. Kabaka Kintu came from the north of Uganda; it is said that he was accompanied by a group of people. On their way down to Buganda they came across a place where there was no food. Some people say that it was a drought in that particular place. Kabaka Kintu, as the leader of that group of people, suggested that each and everyone should look for something to eat; some hunted animals, some caught insects and some brought different sorts of things. In addition to his suggestion, he said that they all should try to eat that particular thing each had brought; and if one vomited or felt unwell after eating that particular thing, then it would become one's totem and automatically, of course, one's clan. The suggestion was carried out; and it is now the known origin of the totems and clans of the Baganda
A brief description of the social system of the Lugbara.
No full textThe Lugbara and Madi (properly Ma’di, but I shall keep the traditional spelling) are the most easterly speakers of the Eastern Sudanic group of languages, which stretches from the Lake Chad region to the Nile Valley. They are usually referred to by Government sources as Nilotic tribes; this is incorrect. They are distinct both culturally and linguistically from the neighboring Nilotic peoples to the east of the Nile
The challenge to New Zealand Labour || A constructive answer to the “ Walsh Report” by a brilliant young English economist
No full textPublished with the subtitle: a constructive answer to the “ Walsh Report” by a brilliant young English Economist. Will N.Z. Labour change it's policy?
With a preface by C. Morgan Williams M.P
Political generations in Bukoba :1890-1939.
No full textWhat theoretical framework I have been able to salvage is, as the title of my paper suggests, largely evolutionary. The "political generations" which I wish to distinguish in the various stages of colonial rule are those Africans who were able to mediate spontaneously between the machinery of alien government and the outlook of the indigenous population