Elizabeth Dimock - Women, Mission and Church in Uganda: Ethnographic encounters in an age of imperialism, 1895-1960s (Routledge Studies in Modern British History)

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Names: Dimock, Elizabeth, author.
Title: Women, mission and church in Uganda : ethnographic encounters

in an age of imperialism, 18951960s / Elizabeth Dimock.

Other titles: Routledge studies in modern British history ; v 16.

Description: New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge studies in

modern British history ; v 16 | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016048339 | ISBN 9781138228344 (hardback : alk. paper) |

ISBN 9781315392745 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Church Missionary Society. Uganda MissionHistory. |

Women missionariesUgandaSocial conditions20th century. |

WomenUgandaSocial conditions20th century. | Missions,

BritishUgandaHistory20th century.

Classification: LCC HQ1797 .D56 2017 | DDC 305.432660234106761dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016048339

ISBN: 978-1-138-22834-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-39274-5 (ebk)

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I am grateful for the continuing support of La Trobe University over many years, for grants for fieldwork that enabled me to visit libraries and institutions in England and Uganda and funding for the Borchardt library to purchase CMS archives on microfilm of the Uganda Mission for the period 19141935. Academic staff and postgraduates in the History programme have been a source of intellectual stimulus, and I gained much from seminars on theory and method and from a Feminist History reading group, along with specific criticism of my work. The winds of change blew postmodernism through History during my doctoral candidature, and I particularly acknowledge the inspiration gained from the late Emeritus Professor Rhys Isaac. I thank Professor Diane Kirkby for her early encouragement to publish in the area called Dealing with Difference. I owe many thanks to Drs Cheryl Crockett and Lee-Ann Monk for reading recent chapters of this volume; to them and to my colleagues Yvonne Ward and Janet Butler, thank you for your friendship and continued encouragement. Dr Apollo Nsubuga Kyobe assisted me with the translation of documents in Luganda, for which I am most grateful. I have had considerable help from staff in the Borchardt library, and thank Eva Fisch who has been a continuing source of support.

Dr David Dorward attempted to keep me on a steady course in supervising my doctoral research, and I am deeply indebted to him; his knowledge of African history has been invaluable. I take full responsibility, however, for the production of this volume.

In Uganda, the National Council for Science and Technology and the Presidents Office gave permission for my research project, and the Maker-ere Institute for Social Research (MISR) gave me affiliation and access to the Makerere University Library. Amos Rwabera (MISR) translated letters from Luganda. There were many who helped to make my brief period of fieldwork satisfactory. The late Bishops Amos Betungura and Akisoferi Wesonga drove me around their dioceses enabling me to interview people. The late Bishop Misaeri Kauma encouraged me, and I am appreciative of the late Archbishop Yona Okoth who allowed me to use the archives of the Church of Uganda at Namirembe. I was able to use the library at Mukono College. The principal of Gayaza Girls High School, Ruth Kavuma, allowed me to use the schools historical records, and I was able to discuss the schools history with staff members; I also thank Victoria Kisarale, Head Teacher in 2016, for further allowing the use of historical photos. The headmistress of Kyebambe Girls School in Toro allowed me to use school archives. Helen Wangusa, the Mothers Union worker for the Province of Uganda, helped me to locate women who had been associated with the Mothers Union some decades ago. It was most pleasurable interviewing women and men about the early history of the Church of Uganda, their experience as members of the Church and their memories of, and friendships with female missionaries. These included Elsie Kajubi, Deborah Kiwanika, Norah Pande, Yemima Sajjabi, Florence Nekyon, Ruth Nsubuga, Christine Sebaduka, Lillian Mukwaya, Eresi Muntukwonka, Mrs Bikangaga, Erina Kigozi, Geraldine Sabiti, Betty Kanyamunyu, Mrs Magali, Marjorie Kabuzi, Grace Bwayo, Ruth Baddakwaya, Janet Wesonga, Canon A. J. Binaisa, Eridade Mulira, Ananias Murumba, Eriasa Mugimba, many of whom are now deceased. I thank them, or their families, all.