Word: kabaka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area to what is happening in another. He cited, for example, a recent experience in Khartoum, where he checked with a local editor for the latest regional news. The answer he got: "Oh, nothing but this business in Uganda. The British have deposed some guy called the Kabaka. We're not going to run the story . not much interest . too far away." (Six hours later, Campbell was on a plane bound for neighboring Uganda to report the story (TIME, Dec. 14.) Adds Campbell: "The Sudanese are not peculiar in their indifference to affairs beyond their borders. When...
Many of them were of the opinion that the Kabaka had been meddling in politics to divert public attention from the previous frivolity of his personal life. Explaining the government's decision to the Lukiko, Governor Cohen, a close friend of Mutesa II and one of Britain's best colonial administrators, accused the exiled Kabaka of "persistently refusing to accept British decisions...
Under the agreement of 1900, signed by Britain and Mutesa's crocodile-worshiping father, the Kabaka is required to "conform . . . and cooperate loyally with Her Majesty's Government." But since last summer, the Baganda have been demanding 1) a definite date for Buganda independence. 2) the transfer of Buganda affairs from the British Colonial Office to the Foreign Office. This would have meant splitting the Uganda protectorate into two unworkable enclaves-one for the proud Baganda. another for the 4,000,000 less-advanced tribesmen. Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton turned down both requests, but when he ordered...
Next day, dressed in a chalk-striped grey suit, the Kabaka of Uganda sat in the gallery of the House of Commons and heard British democracy wrestle with its conscience (see below...
...Name, Go. In the House of Commons, Laborite after Laborite leaped to his feet to denounce the Kabaka's deposition as a "classic blunder" and the person and policies of Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton as disastrous. M.P.s on both sides had been shocked by reports of British military brutalities in Kenya. Britons were dismayed that the Colonial Office had kept a group of suspected Guiana Communists in jail for ten weeks, without bringing them to trial (TIME, Nov. 2). The Laborites blamed all these things on Oliver Lyttelton...