ABSTRACT
This chapter contends that the tendency to rebel, at least in the case of nationalist rebellions against colonial intrusions, is often a response to the violation of cultural cores by the intruding actors. There were important differences between the two people's traditional social organization, culture, and encounter with British colonialism. One of the most basic sources of conflict between colonialists and indigenous societies was the clash of European and African cultures as well as the sheer determination of the colonialists to dismantle African cultures. In Buganda British colonialism spared much of the traditional social organization, important institutions and relations were allowed to continue. The evolution of colonialism meant undermining the monarchy in some regards, the environment in which the monarchy had to survive was gradually weakened. Cross-cultural research and theory contruction concern themselves with explanations which are culturally transcendental.
