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"This is a personal account of the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, fought between May 1998 and June 2000, as well as of the periods immediately preceding and following the conflict. Shallow Graves traces shifting local perceptions of time, the nation and the region, beginning in the mid-1990s and concluding with the peace agreement signed between the two governments in 2018." From publisher's website

Introduction: understanding the contours of Africa's past --Part I. Polity, society, and economy: ingenuity and violence in the nineteenth century --Western transitions: slave trade and "legitimate" commerce in Atlantic Africa --Eastern intrusions: slaves and ivory in Eastern Africa --Southern frontiers: colony and revolution in Southern Africa --Part II. Africa and Islam: revival and reform in the nineteenth century --Revival and reaction: North African Islam --Jihad: revolutions in Western Africa --The eastern crescent: the Islamic frontier in Eastern Africa --Part III. Africa and Europe: commerce, conflict and co-option, to c.1920 113 --The compass and the cross --"Whatever happens ...": towards the scramble --Africans adapting: conquest and partition --Part IV. Colonialisms --"Pax colonia"? Empires of soil and service --Hard times: protest, identity, and depression --Battles home and away: Africa in global war (again) --Part V. The dissolution of empire --The beached whale: colonial strategies in the postwar world --Conceiving and producing nations --Compromising conflict: routes to independence --Part VI. Legacies, new beginnings, and unfinished business --Unsafe foundations: challenges of independence --Violence and the militarization of political culture --Rectification, redemption, and reality: issues and trends in contemporary Africa.

This book is the first major study in several decades to consider Uganda as a nation, from its precolonial roots to the present day. Here, Richard J. Reid examines the political, economic, and social history of Uganda, providing a unique and wide-ranging examination of its turbulent and dynamic past for all those studying Uganda's place in African history and African politics. Reid identifies and examines key points of rupture and transition in Uganda's history, emphasising dramatic political and social change in the precolonial era, especially during the nineteenth century, and he also examines the continuing repercussions of these developments in the colonial and postcolonial periods. By considering the ways in which historical culture and consciousness has been ever present - in political discourse, art and literature, and social relationships - Reid defines the true extent of Uganda's viable national history. --

AbstractThe public and professional significance of precolonial History as a discipline has declined markedly across much of sub-Saharan Africa over the last forty years: History has been both demonized—depicted as deeply dangerous and the source of savagery and instability—and portrayed as irrelevant when set alongside the needs for economic modernization and "development." This paper explores this trend in the context of Uganda, with a particular focus on the kingdom of Buganda, chosen for its particularly rich oral and literary heritage and the thematic opportunities offered by its complex and troubled twentieth century. The paper aims to explore how "the past"—with a focus on the precolonial era—has been understood there in several distinct periods. These include the era of imperial partition and the formation of the Uganda Protectorate between the 1880s and the 1910s; competition for political space within colonial society to the 1950s; decolonization and the struggle to create new nationhood in the mid-twentieth century; and political crises and partial recovery since the 1970s. Ultimately, the paper seeks to assess the role of History in a modern African society vis-à-vis the developmental agendas and notions of economic growth against which African "progress" and prospects for "stability" are currently measured.