Professor Semakula Kiwanuka was educated at Namilyango College, The Royal Tech. College (now the University of Nairobi); Makerere University and the University of London. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Head of the History Department at Makerere University
Buganda in Modern History is a collection of Professor Low's published articles, with the exception of the Introduction and the last Chapter (p. 227). In Chapter I Professor Low discusses Buganda's reception of and response to the foreign religions during the 19th Century and the revolutionary impact of these religiom on Kiganda Society especially in the Royal Court.