Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward

David Parkin

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9780520360846
• eBook ISBN: 9780520314382
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Urban Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by newly emerging socio-economic status-groups. However, the new national boundaries suddenly made aliens of peoples who had migrated and settled in towns distant from their home countries. The interplay of nationality, ethnicity and socio-economic status or class was given a new theatre. Hope was dramatically tempered by nationalist and ethnic conflicts which cut across ethnically mixed, small status groups of neighbours and friends. In Kampala, Uganda, this rapidly unfolding drama resulted in the expulsion of two Kenyan ethnic groups and polarised peoples from northern and southern Uganda. The essentialisation of ethnic and national identity imposed by colonialism was thus taken on in this new situation by the people themselves, with the result that they became 'cultural' starting-points of social and political judgement. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased dev

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS 1
• INTRODUCTORY
• CHAPTER I SOCIAL OUTLINE OF KAMPALA
• CHAPTER II INDEPENDENCE AND POLITICAL CHANGES
• CHAPTER III NEIGHBOURHOOD, LOCALITY, AND THE STATUS SYSTEM
• CHAPTER IV COMMUNAL UNITY AND POLITICS
• CHAPTER V THE TRIBAL SYSTEM AND FAMILY LIFE
• CHAPTER VI SANCTIONS AND IDEOLOGY
• CHAPTER VII CHOICE AMONG KIN
• CHAPTER VIII LUO UNION AND OTHER ETHNIC ASSOCIATIONS
• CONCLUSIONS
• APPENDIX I ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON THE MAIN TRIBES REPRESENTED IN KAMPALA-MENGO
• APPENDIX II (to Chapter VIII) LUO UNION GENERAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS, OCTOBER 1963
• APPENDIX III TABLE Vll(a). NAGURU ESTATE RELIGION (1962)
• TABLE Vll(b). NAKAWAESTATE RELIGION (1962)
• REFERENCES
• INDEX