Jonathon L. Earle is Assistant Professor of History at Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, and Chair of the African and African American Studies Program.

• Introduction: power and history writing in colonial Buganda; 1. Ignatius K. Musazi: powerful kings and colonial economies, c.1905–c.1949; 2. Eridadi M.K. Mulira: cosmopolitanism and citizenship, c.1909–c.1949; 3. Eridadi M.K. Mulira: Buganda's status in Uganda, c.1953–c.1959; 4. Abubakar K. Mayanja: pluralism and Islamic political thought, c.1844–c.1962; 5. Benedicto K.M. Kiwanuka: justice and Catholic dissent, c.1879–c.1962; Conclusion: textual production and historical imagination in postcolonial Buganda.

'Buganda is one of the most studied societies in sub-Saharan Africa, but in this thoughtful and innovative book Jonathon L. Earle shows us how much more there is to explore. Using a series of illuminating case studies, based on pioneering research in private archives, Earle demonstrates how vivid, and how complex, were the political and historical imaginations of the kingdom's leading intellectuals in the late colonial moment. This book represents a thrilling new strand in Ganda historiography, and scholars of Uganda, and intellectual historians more broadly, owe Jonathon L. Earle a debt of gratitude.' Richard Reid, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London