Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-227) and index.

"Assassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy duri ng the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda's most controversial and disruptive politician, and his legacy is still divisive. On the eve of independence, he led the Democratic Party (DP), a national movement of predominantly Catholic activists, to end political inequalities and re ligious discrimination. Along the way, he became Uganda's first prime m inister and first Ugandan chief justice. Earle and Carney show how Kiwa nuka and Catholic activists struggled to create an inclusive vision of the state, a vision that resulted in relentless intimidation and extra- judicial killings. Focusing closely on the competing Catholic projects that circulated throughout Uganda, this book offers new ways of thinkin g about the history of democratic thought, while pushing the study of C atholicism in Africa outside of the church and beyond the gaze of missi onaries. Drawing on never before seen sources from Kiwanuka's personal papers, the authors upend many of the assumptions that have framed Ugan da's political and religious history for over sixty years, as well as r epositioning Uganda's politics within the global arena." --Provided by publisher