Word: kabaka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems-with Kipling and Queen Victoria, whose spirits brood above the sahibs' hill. But the summit that matters most in Kampala and in all Buganda is No. 7. There, in his white palace, ringed with pacing sentries and a ten-foot-high stockade of elephant grass, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda got an urgent message last week. It was an invitation from Uganda's British governor, Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, to His Highness Kabaka Edward William Frederick David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II. It said: Come and talk...
State of Emergency. News of their ruler's exile hit the Baganda like a tropical rainstorm. The Kabaka's 300-lb. sister, Princess Zalwanga, collapsed and died; his pretty young Nabagereka (Queen) retired with her ladies in waiting and sent out a message that she was "bewildered and grief-stricken." Buganda nationalists, who have previously attacked the Kabaka as a playboy and British puppet, quickly reversed themselves and cried for "our beloved King." In the Great Lukiko (native council), Prime Minister Paulo Kavuma announced that he had radioed London, beseeching the British government to please send Mutesa home...
...Lake Victoria. Population: 5,000,000-and "crocodiles beyond credence." A haunt of buffaloes, hippopotamuses and some 20,000 elephants, Uganda is a picturesque land of volcanos, glaciers, deserts and waterfalls. All-black population ruled by a handful of Kiplingesque Britons and by Mutesa II, the Oxford-educated Kabaka (king) of the Buganda nation. Chief crops: cotton for Lancashire's looms, bananas, coffee, sisal. Capital: Entebbe, a British jet air base three miles north of the equator...