{"product_id":"acholi-intellectuals-patrick-william-otim-9780821411469","title":"Acholi Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850-1960","description":"\u003ci\u003eAcholi Intellectuals\u003c\/i\u003e draws on the writings of homespun historians, interviews with elderly men and women who remember the last days of colonial rule, and government and missionary archives to illuminate the intellectual and political history of the colonial transition in northern Uganda. The book focuses on Acholiland, a place that has been chronically understudied in comparison to Uganda's rich, fertile, and well-documented south. Southerners there--following the depictions of colonial officials and missionaries--have often regarded northerners as uncultured people lacking ideas. \u003ci\u003eAcholi Intellectuals \u003c\/i\u003echallenges this prejudice, bringing into view a whole category of men (and a few women) who mediated between indigenous and colonial knowledge systems and inaugurated a new kind of politics. Patrick William Otim studies a category of people--known as healers, messengers, war leaders, poet-musicians, and diplomats--who possessed prestige and power in an older Acholi political logic and who, in the dawning days of colonial government, came to occupy positions of power in the British administration. Otim argues that these Acholi intellectuals were not simply creatures of British colonial self-interest; neither was their power invented by the coercive logic of indirect rule. He asserts instead that people who held moral and social power in the older system were able to transform that strength, under colonial administration, into a new form of political legitimacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick William Otim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821411462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821411469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.08w x 0.69d","brand":"Patrick William Otim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44790062153983,"sku":"9780821411469","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0cdff44f-8923-463e-8924-99aa1c157ace.jpg?v=1707287846","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/acholi-intellectuals-patrick-william-otim-9780821411469","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}