Word: baganda
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...return to the land of my fathers and my people," wrote Sir Edward ("King Freddie") Mutesa II in 1966, shortly after he escaped to a London exile. His land was Uganda (pop. 10 million), of which he was the first President, and his people were the 3,000,000 Baganda tribesmen, of whom he was the last Kabaka (King...
...send the body back to Uganda so long as Milton Obote, the man who had deposed King Freddie, remained President. After Obote was overthrown last January by General Amin, the new President made plans to bring the Kabaka's body home to strengthen his support among the Baganda, the country's largest tribe...
Amin was warned by some of his countrymen that the return of Freddie's body could lead to rioting among the Baganda, many of whom had refused to believe that their Kabaka was dead. Others warned that there might be widespread killings to ensure that Freddie would be provided with enough retainers in heaven...
Official Mourning. Amin, who has dissolved Parliament and banned political activity for two years, decided that his control over the country was firm enough for him to take the risk. On the first day of official mourning, he drove in an open Jeep past a three-mile line of Baganda tribesmen. In the Namirembe Anglican Cathedral, he stood for 30 minutes beside the figure of the Kabaka, almost perfectly preserved in a transparent coffin...
...evidence of his theory, McCracken points to such herding cultures as the Bahima of Uganda, among whom lactase levels remain high throughout life, as they do in most civilized countries today where dairying is practiced and milk intolerance uncommon. Other herders (such as the neighboring Baganda and most of the Bantu in Africa), who keep cattle but do not drink the milk, have low lactase levels after childhood and a high incidence of intolerance to milk. In other parts of the world, the same pattern exists. More than 85% of Thai children over the age of five, for example, cannot...