When Your Own Children Become The Enemy
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It has been two months since the passing of King Oyo, the young monarch of Tooro in Western Uganda. His passing thrust the kingdom back into the international spotlight.
But few know the true story of how that kingdom came to be. It is a story of fatherly love, family betrayal, jealousy, and the raw ambition of princes who could no longer wait for their chance.
This is the birth of Tooro, the nation that broke away from the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom in 1830 current-day Western Uganda.
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Youtube Video Link: https://youtu.be/M4kI0Fb8yQo
PRIMARY SOURCES (FEATURED)
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Fisher, Ruth (Mrs. A. B.). Twilight Tales of the Black Baganda. London: Marshall Brothers, Ltd., 1911.
Nyakatura, John W. Anatomy of an African Kingdom: A History of Bunyoro-Kitara. Translated by Teopista Muganwa. Edited by Godfrey N. Uzoigwe. New York: NOK Publishers, 1973.
Uzoigwe, Godfrey N. "Succession and Civil War in Bunyoro-Kitara." The International Journal of African Historical Studies 6, no. 1 (1973): 49–71.
ADDITIONAL READING
Doyle, Shane. Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro: Population & Environment in Western Uganda 1860–1955. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006.
Elizabeth, Princess of Toro. Elizabeth of Toro: The Odyssey of an African Princess. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
K. W. (Sir Tito Winyi IV). "The Kings of Bunyoro-Kitara." The Uganda Journal 5, no. 2 (1937): 53–69.
Steinhart, Edward I. Conflict and Collaboration: The Kingdoms of Western Uganda 1890–1907. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.
