EDUCATION IN EASTERN UGANDA, 1900-1939: A STUDY OF INITIATIVE AND RESPONSE DURING THE EARLY COLONIAL PERIOD

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the process educational transfer in eastern Uganda. It focused on the relationship between two crucial aspects of this process initiative and response. Within the colonial situation in Africa educational Initiatives came from the missions and later from a mission-government coalition. Indigenous response came from both the aristocracy and the peasantry. However the relationship between initiatives and responses was not simple. African response to colonial educational initiatives was examined in relation to the economic and administrative changes of the colonial period. It was argued that colonial educational initiatives prompted a positive indigenous response only if they offered an experience of training which was apposite t the economic and administrative realities of the colonial environment. These realities changed from time to time. As a consequence the study was organized chronologically. They also varied from place to place.