JONATHON L. EARLE is the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Social Studies at Centre College and co-author of Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda. J.J. Carney is Associate Professor of Theology, Creighton University, and author of Rwanda before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era (2014), which won the Ogot award.

In six chapters, Jonathon Earle and Jay Carney present a new interpretation of the history of Uganda in the late colonial period and early postindependence period.... Contesting Catholics falls within the burgeoning body of revisionist literature in Uganda's historiography.

• Introduction: Catholic Democracy and Political Duress in Colonial UgandaBenedicto Kiwanuka, Catholic Uganda and the Gospel of DemocracyRepublicanism and Secession in Tesoland and RwenzururuCatholic Violence and Political Revolution in Bunyoro and KigeziAcholi Alliances and Party Insurrection in AnkoleCatholic Patronage and Royalist Alternatives in Buganda"I offer today my body and blood": Violence, Resistance, and MartyrdomConclusion: Memory and Memorialisation

JONATHON L. EARLE is the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Social Studies at Centre College and co-author of Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda. J.J. Carney is Associate Professor of Theology, Creighton University, and author of Rwanda before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era (2014), which won the Ogot award.

In six chapters, Jonathon Earle and Jay Carney present a new interpretation of the history of Uganda in the late colonial period and early postindependence period.... Contesting Catholics falls within the burgeoning body of revisionist literature in Uganda's historiography.

• Introduction: Catholic Democracy and Political Duress in Colonial UgandaBenedicto Kiwanuka, Catholic Uganda and the Gospel of DemocracyRepublicanism and Secession in Tesoland and RwenzururuCatholic Violence and Political Revolution in Bunyoro and KigeziAcholi Alliances and Party Insurrection in AnkoleCatholic Patronage and Royalist Alternatives in Buganda"I offer today my body and blood": Violence, Resistance, and MartyrdomConclusion: Memory and Memorialisation

JONATHON L. EARLE is the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Social Studies at Centre College and co-author of Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda. J.J. Carney is Associate Professor of Theology, Creighton University, and author of Rwanda before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era (2014), which won the Ogot award.

In six chapters, Jonathon Earle and Jay Carney present a new interpretation of the history of Uganda in the late colonial period and early postindependence period.... Contesting Catholics falls within the burgeoning body of revisionist literature in Uganda's historiography.

• Introduction: Catholic Democracy and Political Duress in Colonial UgandaBenedicto Kiwanuka, Catholic Uganda and the Gospel of DemocracyRepublicanism and Secession in Tesoland and RwenzururuCatholic Violence and Political Revolution in Bunyoro and KigeziAcholi Alliances and Party Insurrection in AnkoleCatholic Patronage and Royalist Alternatives in Buganda"I offer today my body and blood": Violence, Resistance, and MartyrdomConclusion: Memory and Memorialisation