Uganda (Bunyoro) materials collected by Roger Southall

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 380513
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: Uganda (Bunyoro) materials collected by Roger Southall
Date(s)	: 1954-1971
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Southall | Roger J | fl 1970-2001 | scholar on Africa

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Publications: Federalism and higher education in East Africa (1974); edited Labour and unions in Asia and Africa: contemporary issues (1988); edited Trade unions and the new industrialization of the Third World (1988); Imperialism or solidarity? International labour and South African trade unions (1995); edited, with Tsoeu Petlane, Democratisation and demilitarisation in Lesotho: the general election of 1993 and its aftermath (1995); edited, with John Daniel and Morris Szeftel, Voting for democracy: watershed elections in contemporary anglophone Africa (1999); edited Opposition and democracy in South Africa (2001).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Photocopies and typed copies of papers, 1954-1971, collected by Roger Southall whilst a student (1970-1971) at Makerere Institute of Social Research (Kampala, Uganda), including notes, minutes, and press extracts, and concerning parties and politics in Uganda, particularly the Bunyoro district, the subjects including elections, General Idi Amin Dada, and military government.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist and database.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This material was presented to the Library by Dr Roger Southall in 1988.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

The material was used by Southall for the publication Parties and Politics in Bunyoro (Makerere Institute of Social Research, 1975).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: British Library OPAC.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Apr 2002