Dr Jonathon L. Earle

This page is designed to highlight readily available primary source material in Uganda studies. If you have questions or additional sources in mind that warrant attention, please contact me.

Specific Sources

• Daily Telegraph, 15 November 1875

• Lukiiko Minutes, 1/2, 1895–1907

• Lukiiko Minutes, 2/2, 1908–1917

• Munno, 1911

• Ekyokusaba, 8 November 1915

• Bataka Trials, 1924

• Hanson, Holly E., Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda (Portsmouth, Henemann, 2003)

• H.H. the Kabaka of Buganda, Kigambo kyo Kugata Awamu Ensi Za Badugavu Ezifugibwa Gavumenti Engereza mu East Africa, 1927.

• H.H. the Kabaka of Buganda, Obuyigirize, Obulabufu N’Okwezaya mu Buganda (Education, Civilization & “Foreignisation” in Buganda (Mengo: The Gambuze P. & P. Works, 1935)

• Forward to Freedom: Being the Manifesto of the Democratic Party, April 1960

• UPC Constitution, 1960

• UPC Policy Statement, December 1960

• Benedicto Kiwanuka, Uganda Elections, 1962

• Kabaka of Buganda, ‘King Freddie’s Own Story: Why Dr. Obote, A Man I Once Knew Well, Seized my Kingdom’, Sunday Telegraph, 3 July 1966

• A. Milton Obote, Myths and Realities: Letter to a London Friend (Kampala: Consolidated Printers, LTD., 1968)

• CIA Memorandum, 21 September 1972

• E.M.K. Mulira, No Constitution Without the Sovereignty of the People: A Candid Exposition of the Subject, c. mid- to late 1980s

• Aligaweesa

• Okulokola Buganda

• PP Manifesto

• Okwegatta kwa Uganda Pulaani ya PP

CIA Reports

• CIA Brief, 7 September 1960

• CIA Brief, 7 January 1961

• CIA Weekly Summaries, 12 January 1961

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Art

• British Museum

• Smithsonian Institute of African Art

• 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust

• Uganda Museum

Dictionaries and Grammars

• Makerere University

• School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

• University of Cambridge

Early Colonial Ethnographies

• Hathi Trust Digital Library

• Internet Archive

• Library of Congress, Digital Library

• National Library of Uganda

Econometrics

• Blue Books, Uganda Protectorate

  • Hathi Trust Digital Library

  • University of Cambridge, Rare Books Room

• World Bank

Film and Television

• British Pathé

• Colonial Film, British Film Institute

• National Anthropological Archives/Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian

• NTV Uganda

• Uganda Broadcasting Corporation

• XYZ Show

Institutional Archives

• African Union, Commission Archives

• American National Archives, College Park, MD (NARA II)

• Archives des Missionnaires d'Afrique (Pères Blancs), Rome

• Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer, Aix-en-Provence

• Archives Hub, London

• British National Archives, Kew

• British Online Archives

• Buganda Lukiiko Archives

• Center for Research Libraries

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Electronic Reading Room

• Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge

• Centre for Christianity Worldwide, Cambridge

• Church Missionary Society Archives, University of Birmingham

• Church of Uganda Archives

  • Brill Online Primary Sources

  • Yale Divinity Special Collections

  • Uganda Christian University, Hamu Mukasa Library

• Commonwealth and African Collections, Weston Library, Oxford

• French Diplomatic Archives

• Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London

• Lambeth Palace Library

• Library of Congress, Manuscripts

• Kenya National Archives

• Makerere University, Africana Collection

• Michigan State University, African Activist Archive

• Mill Hill Missionaries Archives, Liverpool

• Mundus, United Kingdom

• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge

• Qatar Digital Library

• Saint Augustine's College, Canterbury, Archives

• School of Oriental and African Studies, Archives and Special Collections

• Royal Commonwealth Society, Cambridge

• Rubaga Diocesan Archives

• Tanzania, Records and Archives Management Department

• Uganda Archives

  • National Archives, Kampala

    • Chief Secretary's Office

    • Civil Reabsorption

    • Elections

    • Office of the President

    • Provincial Papers

    • Public Works Department

    • Secretariat Papers

    • Secretariat 'Topical' Collection

  • District Archives (DA)

    • Hoima DA

    • Jinja DA

    • Kabale DA

    • Kabale District Forestry Archives 

    • Kabarole DA

    • Soroti DA

    • Tooro Kingdom Archive

• University of Cambridge, Manuscripts and Archives

• University of London, Senate House

• Wellcome Library, London

• Wilson Center Digital Archive

Journals

• Uganda Journal

  • Uganda Society

Language Learning

• City Language Centre, Kampala

Maps and Topography

• Africa Map, University of Harvard

• Afriterra

• Animated Atlas of African History, Brown University

• British National Archives, Kew, Maps

• Columbia University, Maps of Africa

• H-Maps

• Library of Congress, Maps Collections

• Old Maps Online

• University of Texas Libraries, Africa Maps

Medicine and Public Health

• Albert Cook Library, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University

Music and Airwaves

• British Library, Sounds

• British Library, World and Traditional Music

• CBS, Radio Buganda

• Library of Congress, Audio Recordings

• Music Time in Africa, University of Michigan

• Radio Garden (Mapping International Radio)

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Digital Collections, Sights and Sounds of a Continent

Newspapers

• Daily Monitor

• New Vision

• Observer

• Vernacular Presses

  • Africana, Makerere University

  • Munno

  • British Library

Photography

• Africa through a Lens

• British Library

• British Museum

• DRUM Magazine

• History in Progress Uganda

• International Mission Photography Archive, University of Southern California

• LIFE Photo Collection

• New York Public Library: Digital Collections

• Northwestern University, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies

• Smithsonian Institute of African Art, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the National Museum of African Art

• United Nations Photos and Photo Archives

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Digital Collections, Sights and Sounds of a Continent

Policy and Government Reports

• African Union, Commission Archives

• Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in British Parliament

• Hansard, Uganda Parliament

  • Library of Rubaga Diocesan Archives

  • Parliament of the Republic of Uganda

• Making Sense of Kony

• National Library of Uganda

• United Nations Global Development Network

• World Health Organization Archives

Private Papers

• Apter, David E.

• Buganda Government Archives. Includes the papers of leading Ganda activists during the colonial period: Kabali Ezera, S.K. Masembe Kabali, Apolo Kaggwa, James Kibuka Kabazi Miti, Hamu Mukasa, E.M.K. Mulira, Bamuta Yusuf, et. al.

• Church, John (Joe) E.

• Fallers, Lloyd A.

• Mulira, Eridadi M.K.

• King, Noel Q.

• Perham, Margery F.

• Richards, Audrey I.

• Stanley, Henry Morton

Scholarly Societies and Research Clearance

• British Institute in Eastern Africa

• Centre for Basic Research

• Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR)

• Uganda National Council for Science and Technology

• Uganda Society