Word: buganda
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...East African kingdom of Buganda, a province of the British protectorate of Uganda, the night gleamed with bonfires. In the flickering light, huge gourds stood in rows, ready to be filled with the banana beer that was brewing in hollowed-out logs. Musicians gave an additional twist to the cow sinews binding their drums, bringing them up to concert pitch. Shapely dancing girls added extra layers of cloth to the bustles that accentuate their sinuous movements. Throughout the green and rolling land last week, 1,500,000 Buganda tribesmen were getting ready to celebrate the 35th birthday of their Kabaka...
...sternly announced that Queen Damali was to be confined incommunicado to her room for the present, and would later be exiled to the lonely Sese Islands, 30 miles offshore in Lake Victoria. The assembled advisers were not terribly impressed by the King's evidence, since they-and all Buganda-were well aware that the King wants to divorce Queen Damali so that he could marry his great and good friend, the Queen's unmarried sister Sarah, thus putting Sarah's two children in line for the throne...
Near the town of Lugazi, in the Buganda section of Uganda, an African husband got home from a beer party one night recently to find his wife of 22 years entertaining three men. A fight broke out, and the husband was killed. As the guilty foursome wondered how to dispose of the corpse, a simple solution occurred to them...
BRITISH SCHOOLING. Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dras Bandaranaike was a fellow student of Anthony Eden at Oxford; India's Nehru and the King of Buganda went to Cambridge. Pakistan's boss, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, was trained at Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, as was India's Chief of Staff, General Thimmaya. Every fourth cadet on parade at Sandhurst is dark-skinned. Nyasaland's rabble-rousing Dr. Hastings Banda got his postgraduate medical education at Edinburgh, Kenya's Tom Mboya went to Oxford, Ghana's Nkrumah to the London...
Alarmed, Britain's Governor last week declared the troubled province of Buganda a "disturbed area," decreed emergency police powers, and banned the U.N.M. (which simply changed its name and continued the boycott), and arrested its top leaders. But the movement ran into another kind of resistance when street food stalls refused to sell to African women who have abandoned Buganda custom by wearing chic dresses and combing their hair. Replied one local lady, in a remark that deserves a durable place in the language of the battle of the sexes: "If they boycott us, we'll girlcott them...