Word: daudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obote's actions caused deep divisions among Uganda's 8,000,000 people. His political opposition refused to be intimidated. "It is the duty of all Ugandians to protect the constitution and to die for it, if necessary," cried Kabaka Yekka Party Leader Daudi Ocheng. "Once the constitution is broken, the rule of the 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...
...brothers" are an oddly matched pair of students at Oxford: stocky, crew-cut Bob McNair from Canada and tall, black Daudi Mukasa from Uganda. Both view the great world of Europe with the eyes of provincials, but where McNair sees purpose and proportion, Mukasa finds only disillusionment and decay. It is one of the book's first ironies that Mukasa, who rejects Europe, is more successful in terms of popularity and girls than McNair, who loves...
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