Word: buganda
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Hardly had he declared himself President than he rammed through a new constitution giving Uganda a powerful central government-and erasing most of Buganda's cherished autonomy...
...hills, and to Ugandans each has its special significance. But none is so important as Mengo Hill, where a rambling brick palace on the peak is an object of universal awe. Not even the British dared violate its sanctity, for beneath its silver dome lived the Kabaka (ruler) of Buganda, largest and richest of Uganda's five ancient kingdoms. Buganda's rulers were so powerful in colonial days that they were always granted considerable autonomy by the British. Cambridge-educated Sir Edward F. W. Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula ("Freddy") Mutesa II, who succeeded to the throne in 1942, almost...
...General U Thant for United Nations intervention to avert "calamity at the eleventh hour." Obote immediately accused the King of high treason, surrounded the palace with troops. Then from the top of Mengo Hill came a sound seldom heard: the deep, buckskin thump of the royal war drums summoning Buganda's 2,000,000 subjects to rise to defend their King...
Whether it will be or not is another question. Although the army was in tight control over Kampala itself, bands of warriors still rampaged through Buganda countryside, ambushing occasional patrols and making communications all but impossible. King Freddy himself had presumably gone underground. The Obote regime hinted at week's end that he had somehow managed to escape-probably under the cover of an afternoon thunderstorm that had interrupted the battle...
...jungle takes over." Actually, whether there was to be any dying appeared to be up to the four-battalion army. So far, its loyalty seemed badly split between Obote and the figurehead chief of state, Sir Edward ("Freddy") Mutesa, 42, who is the Kabaka, hereditary ruler of Buganda kingdom, most powerful of Uganda's four regions...