Acholi Intellectuals
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2555-8 (ISBN)
Acholi Intellectuals draws on the writings of homespun historians, interviews with elderly men and women who remember the last days of colonial rule, and government and missionary archives to illuminate the intellectual and political history of the colonial transition in northern Uganda. The book focuses on Acholiland, a place that has been chronically understudied in comparison to Uganda’s rich, fertile, and well-documented south. Southerners there—following the depictions of colonial officials and missionaries—have often regarded northerners as uncultured people lacking ideas. Acholi Intellectuals challenges this prejudice, bringing into view a whole category of men (and a few women) who mediated between indigenous and colonial knowledge systems and inaugurated a new kind of politics.
Patrick William Otim studies a category of people—known as healers, messengers, war leaders, poet-musicians, and diplomats—who possessed prestige and power in an older Acholi political logic and who, in the dawning days of colonial government, came to occupy positions of power in the British administration. Otim argues that these Acholi intellectuals were not simply creatures of British colonial self-interest; neither was their power invented by the coercive logic of indirect rule. He asserts instead that people who held moral and social power in the older system were able to transform that strength, under colonial administration, into a new form of political legitimacy.
Patrick William Otim is an associate professor of history at Bates College and affiliated faculty at the Africana Program. He is a historian of East Africa with a particular interest in northern Uganda. His work has appeared in the Journal of Eastern African Studies, Critical African Studies, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies, History in Africa, and Stichproben-Vienna Journal of African Studies, among other places.
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction The Forgotten Acholi Intellectuals 1
Chapter 1 Acholiland, 1850–1911: An Overview 27
Chapter 2 Power and Authority: The Making of Acholi Intellectuals 48
Chapter 3 The Roles of Court Officials: Acholi Intellectuals and the Functioning of Their Chiefdoms 75
Chapter 4 The Introduction of Christianity: Acholi Intellectuals and the Spread of the New Religion 101
Chapter 5 The Demise of the Old Order: Acholi Intellectuals and the Spread of Colonial Rule 141
Chapter 6 The Intellectual Lives of the Transitional Acholi, 1920s–1960 173
Epilogue The Destruction of Acholi Intellectuals 204
Glossary of Selected Local Terms 215
Source Abbreviations 219
Notes 221
Bibliography 267
Index 279
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New African Histories |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 black-and-white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Athens |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8214-2555-2 / 0821425552 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8214-2555-8 / 9780821425558 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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