Word: baganda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East African federation combining Uganda, of which Buganda is officially a province, with Kenya and Tanganyika. But Cambridge-educated King Freddie, as he was known in Mayfair society, dreamed of independence. In 1953 the British rashly hustled him off into exile in London, had to back down when the Baganda threatened to become completely unmanageable. In 1955, as drums rolled and tom-toms boomed, King Freddie came home in triumph...
Last week the Bishop of Uganda was in London going over the whole distressing affair with the Archbishop of Canterbury. But Freddie's clash with the church was likely only to increase his popularity among all the best Baganda families, who are traditionally delighted if the Kabaka seduces one of their daughters-in fact, that is how most of them became the best families. If Freddie throws off the hampering moral ties of Anglicanism, as he has been trying to throw off the political hold of Britain, the tribalists may in gratitude try to get rid of the progressives...
...suit, 31-year-old Edward William Frederick David Walugembe Luwangula Mutebi-Kabaka Mutesi II-bowed stiffly to the right and left from his Rolls-Royce convertible as it rolled triumphantly toward his palace in Kampala past throngs of his screaming, weeping, dancing subjects. They beat their cheeks in the Baganda brand of war whoop, thumped tom-toms, flung themselves prostrate as the Kabaka passed. And for four days and nights, an orgy of welcome roared...
With typical Whitehall urbanity, the Colonial Office represented the Kabaka's exile and return as designed from the first for the Baganda's own good, which had been practically forced on them to save the Baganda from the stubbornness of an absolute monarch. They should have told that to the Baganda. At the ceremonial signing of the new agreements last week, 10,000 roared noisy applause as King Freddie spoke. Then Governor Cohen rose. "Who does not believe that this friendship [of Britain and Buganda] has emerged not diminished but strengthened?" he asked rhetorically. The assembled tribal chiefs...
...year ago, however, Kwini Elizabeth found herself at odds with her Buganda subjects and their even more beloved monarch, Kabaka Edward Frederick William David Mukabya Mutesa II, the 30-year-old local ruler whom the Baganda know as Sabasajja, the Best and Strongest of All Men. The disagreement started when Britain's Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton tactlessly suggested that peaceful Uganda be joined with Tanganyika and Mau Mau-ridden Kenya in a big East African Federation. The Kabaka, reflecting his people's outrage, began plumping instead for complete independence for his kingdom. The British reply was to pack...