This book is a political memoir. Grace Ibingira was a young lawyer in Kampala just before Uganda became independent of British colonial control, and he became a leading figure in the Uganda Peoples' Congress formed by Milton Obote in 1960. For both reasons, he played a major role at the two conferences in London which determined the constitutional mode in which his country acquired independence.
The sections of the memoir dealing with these conferences form a primary source which future historians of Uganda will neglect at their peril. There are also some interesting comments upon electoral campaigning.
Otherwise, the book relies heavily for information upon a handful of standard secondary studies of Ugandan history by other writers, which presumably indicates the kind of reader the author hopes to reach: people with little leisure but ten dollars to spare.
MICHAEL TWADDLE
Université de Londres
État satisfaisant
332 pages
ISBN : 978-0670323692
This book is a political memoir. Grace Ibingira was a young lawyer in Kampala just before Uganda became independent of British colonial control, and he became a leading figure in the Uganda Peoples' Congress formed by Milton Obote in 1960. For both reasons, he played a major role at the two conferences in London which determined the constitutional mode in which his country acquired independence.
The sections of the memoir dealing with these conferences form a primary source which future historians of Uganda will neglect at their peril. There are also some interesting comments upon electoral campaigning.
Otherwise, the book relies heavily for information upon a handful of standard secondary studies of Ugandan history by other writers, which presumably indicates the kind of reader the author hopes to reach: people with little leisure but ten dollars to spare.
MICHAEL TWADDLE
Université de Londres
État satisfaisant
332 pages
ISBN : 978-0670323692