Letter from Bataka to National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions
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Letter from Bataka to National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions

Bataka. Elders of the people in Uganda · June 11, 1949

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Digital Commonwealth — Special Collections and University Archives

Signed Semakula Mulumba, representative; addressed to Harlow Shapley; thanking him for the invitation to the Council's impending world peace conference and regretting he could not attend; outlining his unfamiliarity with "the 'American way of life'" but interest in the conference nonetheless; and describing the British disruption of the Ugandan national culture.

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