LORDS OF THE FLY - COLONIAL VISIONS AND REVISIONS OF AFRICAN-SLEEPING-SICKNESS ENVIRONMENTS ON UGANDAN LAKE VICTORIA, 1906-61

Sleeping-sickness control in southern Uganda created ideological openi ngs for the articulation of colonial visions of African environments. Competing colonial agendas, Ugandans' positions in their own environme nts, and Ugandans' resistance and responses to colonial schemes determ ined how such visions played themselves out in practice. The emerging power of colonial science played an important role in colonial attempt s at constructing nature and defining Africans' relationship with thei r environments through disease control. The combination of forced depo pulations, strategic clearings, and planned resettlement in British sl eeping-sickness control schemes in southern Uganda set in motion a cyc le of long-term land alienation from 1906 to 1962 that reflected the p articular relations between British science, environmental interventio n, and colonisation.