ABSTRACT
The first five female missionaries arriving in Uganda in 1895 were part of the surging tide of missionary endeavour, on the cusp of British imperial advance in East Africa. From being a key figure in the introduction of women missionaries in the CMS in the 1890s she became a woman of influence in the Protestant missionary movement across the globe. In Uganda, of the early generation of Christian women, Sala Mukasa's research started too late for her to make direct contact, although one, Mukasa, widow and second wife of Ham Mukasa, a noted political figure in Buganda earlier in the century, died only a few months before my fieldwork in 1991. Between 1895 and 1964 when Mukasa went to work in the Uganda Government Education Department there was an interval of seventy years, a period in which there were two world wars and an economic depression, and the British Empire underwent massive change.
