Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-vii

Notes on Contributors

pp viii-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-22

Part I - Framing Knowledge

pp 23-24

1 - Decolonial Dilemmas and Burdened Epistemic Heritages in Names and Naming Among the Bakiga

pp 25-41

2 - Poetic Violence? Intimate Understandings of Cattle Raiding in Karamoja

pp 42-57

3 - Spirits of Difference: Religion, Healing, and Decolonisation in Acholi

pp 58-77

4 - Contested Freedoms: Human Rights, Decolonisation, and Political Agency in Postcolonial Uganda

pp 78-97

5 - The First White Man to See the Nile: Decolonising History Education in Uganda

pp 98-120

Part II - Imagining Institutions

pp 121-122

6 - Militarism and the Dilemmas of Decolonising Knowledge in Uganda

pp 123-145

7 - Institutional Knowledge and the Ugandan Public Service: From Colonialism and Neocolonialism to the New Public Service

pp 146-169

8 - Local Knowledge and Knowledge of the ‘Locals’: The Political Ambivalence of Bureaucratic Knowledge in Uganda's Villages

pp 170-196

9 - Coloniality and Power in Uganda's Archives

pp 197-221

10 - Higher Art Education and New Initiatives in Kampala: Potentials and Problems of Decolonising Knowledge

pp 222-244

Part III - Making Publics

pp 245-246

11 - Repudiating a Liberal Framework for Political Accountability: The Politics of the Whole versus the Politics of the Party in Uganda in the 1940s

pp 247-268

12 - Decolonising Identity and Citizenship: Revisiting the Historicity of the Indian Question in Uganda

pp 269-294

13 - Liberation Ethnology: District Decolonisation, State Knowledge Production, and the Neoliberal Revolution in Uganda

pp 295-316

14 - Finding Ourselves, Seeing Ourselves: Nationalism and Reclaiming Colonial Spaces in Uganda

pp 317-333

15 - Rudeness/Incivility as Political Strategy: The Poetics and Politics of Stella Nyanzi’s Facebook Work

pp 334-356

Select Bibliography

pp 357-396

Index

pp 397-400

Eastern Africa Series

pp 401-403