Word: buganda
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...Britain's East African Uganda Protectorate, African leaders try for independence, but also find things closer at hand to fight against. Three months ago, disgruntled Buganda political leaders formed the Uganda National Movement and declared an economic boycott against non-African bus companies, shops, and products. Picketing gangs stood outside rural Indian stores to keep farmers away by force, to the delight of African merchants down the road, who promptly raised their prices. Two hundred Africans who own cars have made a mint as taxi operators since a boycott was declared against the white-owned bus line...
...Minister of Finance to His Highness the Kabaka (King) of Buganda says: "There will be plenty of room for Europeans even after self-government. But we are determined to get rid of the Asians." Adds Nyasaland's demagogic Dr. Hastings Banda: "If they interfere in politics, they will be told to clear out. We will boycott their stores, and they know what that means-bankruptcy...
Determined as any White Citizens Council president to keep the bloodlines pure, frolicsome, Cambridge-educated King Freddie, Kabaka of Buganda (pop. about 1,500,000) in the British protectorate of Uganda, moved swiftly to preserve black supremacy. Days after younger brother Prince Henry, 31, had defied a sibling caveat and married 17-year-old Carol Ann Whitey. a Bournemouth art student, Freddie's parliament notified the bridegroom: "As you have married an English girl, neither your children nor your grandchildren can be recognized as being in the direct line of succession to the Kabakaship...
...years the British dreamed of an 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...
Into the Clink. Though he could not act openly, he managed to work effectively through Buganda's tribal chiefs, who know that should democracy come, the traditional tribal hierarchy must go. The tribalists still dominate the Lukiko (Buganda's Parliament). On one pretext or another, Freddie's supporters went after the leaders of those newfangled political parties with their talk of popular elections. They ousted two party presidents from the Lukiko, even had National Congress Party Chairman Joseph Kiwanuka tossed into jail on the charge that he was plotting to assassinate the King. Last month the Lukiko...