Word: kabaka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago, however, Kwini Elizabeth found herself at odds with her Buganda subjects and their even more beloved monarch, Kabaka Edward Frederick William David Mukabya Mutesa II, the 30-year-old local ruler whom the Baganda know as Sabasajja, the Best and Strongest of All Men. The disagreement started when Britain's Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton tactlessly suggested that peaceful Uganda be joined with Tanganyika and Mau Mau-ridden Kenya in a big East African Federation. The Kabaka, reflecting his people's outrage, began plumping instead for complete independence for his kingdom. The British reply was to pack...
...housekeeping in a tastefully furnished flat in London's fashionable Belgravia, passed his time reading, attending the theater, discussing everything from art to EDC with old friends, and in general playing the part of a serious-minded and well-behaved West End gentleman. Britons came to admire the Kabaka's refusal to foment trouble; they were even more impressed by the unchanging loyalty of his people back home, who adamantly refused to accept any other king. As the months passed, the Colonial Office, under the direction of a new minister, Alan Lennox-Boyd, came to the reluctant conclusion...
...policy, a special dispatch rider from Kwini Elizabeth rode over to King Freddie's Belgravia flat with a message from Her Majesty. It said in effect that if the Buganda Lukiko (Parliament) wanted him back and was willing to accept a few constitutional reforms limiting his power, the Kabaka could go home and be king again. Unmentioned in the note was the fact that the Colonial Office, already deeply troubled by race war in Kenya and rising black nationalism in Britain's West African colonies, wants to settle the crisis in Uganda before it too becomes a trouble...
...long months when his Queen was proceeding on her majestic, globe-girdling tour of Britain's dominions, native unrest in Sir Andrew's own bailiwick had mounted steadily. Uganda's blacks were still bitterly resentful of Cohen's exile of their own tribal ruler, the Kabaka (TIME, Dec. 14, 1953). Mau Mau terrorism had spread through the jungles from Kenya right into Uganda's teeming chief city Kampala, where many a white resident found a dead dog or cat crucified on his doorway in grim warning of what might come. A threat from...
There were other signs, all over Africa, of a fairer share of the blanket. Items: ¶ In blossoming Uganda, where Baganda tribesmen still mourn the loss of their exiled Kabaka (TIME, Dec. 14), Governor Sir Andrew Cohen took a plane for London to discuss "social and economic re forms" with British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. Said Cohen before takeoff: "There must be no color bar in Uganda; this evil thing will never be permitted in this country...