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...exception of Israel), democracy has fared less well. Zambia, with a vigorous multiparty system, meets most tests, and Morocco, blessed with 1,100 years of national identity, has made the transition to parliamentary democracy fairly smoothly. Uganda is a democracy by virtue of a more dubious blessing-a dissident Buganda minority still so fiercely loyal to their tribal monarch that Premier Milton Obote is forcibly prevented from creating the one-party state he would like...
...Uganda martyrs are the largest group of lay saints ever canonized by the Catholic Church at one time and the first Bantu Africans publicly honored by the church.†About half of the martyrs -some known only by their first names -were youthful pages in the court of Buganda's pagan King Mwanga, and were speared to death after they refused his homosexual advances. The other saints include Bugandan nobles, a potter and a shipbuilder, who were burned or beheaded when they refused to revert from Christianity to spirit-worship. In all, about 200 Catholic and Protestant converts died...
...polishes. The company raised its research and development staff from 100 to 300 in the past ten years, now markets 750 products. They are put to some unusual uses in unlikely places. Finnish yachtsmen have discovered that Johnson's ordinary Paste Wax keeps barnacles off boat bottoms, and Buganda tribesmen have found that its Off insect repellent deters the Nile River gnats...
Among many critical problems facing the proposed federation are Kenya's occasionally bloody dispute with Somalia, probable opposition from Buganda's Frederick Mutesa II ("King Freddie"), and resistance from Kenya's 55,000 remaining European settlers, who may be apprehensive of submersion in even more millions of Africans. But the federation scheme was off to a remarkably resolute start. When a newsman in Nai robi complimented President Nyerere on how quickly the plan had been launched, Nyerere smiled broadly. "What do you mean, quick?" said he. "This is something we've been thinking about...
Three years ago, half of the Asian merchants in Uganda's Buganda kingdom were driven out of the country by a wave of ugly violence and a boycott of Asian shops. East Africans were cheered last week by the departure from Mozambique of the last batch of 4,600 Indians deported to their homeland by Portuguese authorities in revenge for India's 1961 takeover of Goa. In Tanganyika, all 6,000 Asian civil servants will lose their jobs as soon as enough Africans can be found to replace them...