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SUMMARY:Benedicto K.M. Kiwanuka\, Theological Imagination and the Making o
 f Constitutional Discourse in Colonial Uganda: A Global Intellectual Histo
 ry - Jon Earle\, Selwyn College\, Cambridge
DTSTART:20111020T133000Z
DTEND:20111020T150000Z
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CONTACT:Faridah Zaman
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the conceptual history of a single\, moral
  ideal\, –bwenkanya\, justice\, and how it was reasoned and re-imagined 
 in Catholic Buganda throughout the twentieth-century. Throughout the first
  half of the twentieth-century\, etymological and proverb-use development 
 indicate a gradual\, yet fundamental shift in the conceptual classificatio
 n of ‘justice’\, particularly among Ganda Catholics. There developed a
  discursive shift away from the pre-colonial language of decisiveness and 
 precision (sala ‘musango)—which had come to be effectively legislated 
 by a ruling minority in the post-1900 state—to the language of participa
 tion and mutual discussion\, – kkaanya (–kkaanyizza). By envisioning t
 he latter\, Catholics sought to create political space for majority-based 
 participation. In the context of Uganda’s imminent independence\, Uganda
 ’s first elected prime minister\, Catholic politician Benedicto Kiwanuka
 \, radicalised participatory-oriented conceptualisations of justice with t
 heological abstraction\, on the one hand\, and the constitutional ideals o
 f John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the other\, to not only imagine 
 political space for marginalised Ganda Catholics\, but also non-Catholic\,
  non-Baganda as well. By drawing on the political philosophies of Locke an
 d Rousseau\, Kiwanuka envisioned a nation ‘which stood firmly together
 ’\, while debating internal contestations of authority and recasting rel
 igiously biased\nmonarchicalism.
LOCATION:Library Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, St. John's Library
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