The paper seeks to extend a preliminary examination of Lugard Fredrick (1900): The Story of the Uganda Protectorate.^[1] Lugard’s text gives reference to works of explorers and travelers and some missionaries like John Speke and Henry M. Stanley when making his analyses and interpretations. He writes a history of the precolonial stretching to the colonial history by trying to understand the way of life, the people and socio-economic and political organization in the communities. He deploys a modern reading of the precolonial cultures and gives modern interpretations which seem a misrepresentation of the most part of the history. The paper engages the key categories, claims and assumptions that Lugard deployed to understand Uganda’s history. He described the places, people and their relations [boundaries, culture, social and political organization] in a way to understand the early histories and the encounters between the colonial state and the natives. Therefore, the critique will be launched which is both methodological, conceptual and historical in nature by summoning a different kind of interpretation of his assumptions, narratives and his facts. I seek to undertake a historical, socio-economic and political analysis of Uganda in particular by asking questions which are deeper [including the why and how of events, practices and occasions] from the vantage point of the native and understand them using native interpretations. Lugard tries to postulate the protectorate as having numerous tribes like the Unyoro, Uganda, Usoga, Wahima among others and these are heterogenous with some feature distinct but also sharing others. All these representations signal to the fact that Lugard had a prior master piece of reflection that enabled his creation of dichotomies in relation to what he saw but did not understand. He therefore comes with a blue print that he superimposes on his findings through such categorized dichotomies.  By reading the accounts in their broader conceptual and discursive context, the paper engages in deconstructing the text to reveal the underlying assumptions and categories that shaped Lugard Fredrick’s narratives. Following their lead, one major part of the paper will be to critique the Lugard Fredrick’s writings’ colonial constructions of the ‘native Other’ as ‘Barbarous, tribe, savage, primitive, Christian, pagan, etc’ while being backward in the ‘ways of social, political and economic organisation’ Such a construction, I believe, had greatly contributed to European colonial discourse of conquest of the time. In search of an alternative to this discursive narrative, especially on methodology and use of historical sources. The paper attempts to provide an internal perspective contrary to Lugard Fredrick’s account of The Story of the Uganda Protectorate.

Keywords: The Story of the Uganda Protectorate, Frederick Lugard, Colonial Discourse, Native Other, Postcolonial Historiography.