Word: baganda
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They answered by the uncounted thousands. Phone wires were suddenly cut and roads blockaded all over the kingdom. Shooting broke out in Kampala, and bands of wild-eyed Baganda, shouting war cries and waving machetes, overturned buses and trucks at major intersections. Up the broad avenue to King Freddy's palace marched hundreds of men and women-some with babies strapped to their backs-setting gasoline fires in front of the troops who tried to stop them...
...their elections, which will enable both territories to claim the rights of self-government. There was a minor check a fortnight ago when Buganda's Frederick ("King Freddie") Mutesa II seceded from Uganda and declared Buganda's independence. Nobody noticed much change. Yawned one official: "The Baganda seem to be pretending that they have independence, and the Colonial Office seems to be pretending that they haven...
...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...
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...