DREAMS AND POLITICAL IMAGINATION IN COLONIAL BUGANDA
Jonathon L. Earle
Abstract This article explores the intellectual history of dreaming practices in eastern African kingdom Buganda. Whereas Muslim dissenters used their dreams to challenge colonial authority following kingdom's late nineteenth-century religious wars, political historians such as Apolo Kaggwa removed practice from Buganda's official histories deplete visionary archives which continued draw. Kaggwa's strategy, though, could only be pressed so far. Recently unearthed vernacular sources show that Christian activists, Erieza Bwete and Eridadi Mulira, marshal literacy imagine competing visions monarchy. Earlier scholars had argued modernity would displace function dreams. article, by contrast, proposes sleeping took on new, more complicated meanings throughout twentieth century. Literacy offered new technologies expound upon implications a vast repository symbols enrich interpretative performances.
The Journal of African History