ABSTRACT
Although the late nineteenth century Christian missionary evangelism in Buganda has attracted more than ordinary scholarly interests, few studies have seriously considered the idioms of indigenous invectiveness in the making of colonial Uganda. The same Ganda colonial educated elite who deserted their traditional values for the alien ones partly explains this shortfall in the historiography given that their writings, which are often tainted with Anglophile/Christian bias, remain as our major sources of information about precolonial society and events of this period.2 Since the colonial archive was organized to produce the victors’ version of history, African historical memory has become so skewed that certain ideas loaded with cultural prejudices are uncritically accepted. This is exemplified with the copious literature on mission activities in Uganda in particular and the rest of Africa in general.3
