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Ganda receptivity to change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Michael Twaddle
Affiliation:
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London

Extract

This article surveys a number of recent attempts to explain Ganda receptivity to change during the last hundred years, and suggests that the supposed Ganda ‘urge to excel’ was as much a result of modernization as its principal cause. The article also stresses that modernization in Buganda has proved an extremely patchy business, but that before any serious attempt can be made to relate the patches to more general theories it is necessary to tackle a variety of prior problems. Among those requiring especial attention in Buganda are political ideologies articulated by particular interest groups, the economic fortunes and misfortunes of political agitators, and certain unintended consequences of particular shifts in British colonial policy.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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