White Populism in Southern Rhodesia
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 387-399
ISSN: 1475-2999
The question of populism in Uganda was investigated by Professor D. A. Low in this journal in 1964.1 He argued that the concept of populism was appropriate to describe the political agitation by the independent small landholders and poor peasants against the breakdown of the traditional hierarchical structure of Buganda under the impact of colonial rule. The populists were particularly concerned to reduce their economic disabilities through control of the marketing system for cotton, but at the same time were concerned to articulate 'the kingdom's corporate solidarity'. To that extent Buganda populism was socially conservative, though it may have seemed radical to the colonial rulers.
