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Radical rudeness: Ugandan social critiques in the 1940s.

From: Journal of Social History  |  Date: 3/22/2006  |  Author: Summers, Carol

In a scathing letter of eighteen single-spaced typed pages, Semakula Mulumba declined the Bishop of Uganda's 1948 invitation to dinner. Dinners and other forms of entertainments and hospitality were, Mulumba asserted, pernicious forms of corruption. Dinners and friendly associations among missionaries and protectorate officials, and between Baganda and Britons, had allowed the British to plot among themselves, seize Ugandans' resources, seduce Buganda's leaders and block Ganda ...

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