Word: kabaka
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...people," wrote Sir Edward ("King Freddie") Mutesa II in 1966, shortly after he escaped to a London exile. His land was Uganda (pop. 10 million), of which he was the first President, and his people were the 3,000,000 Baganda tribesmen, of whom he was the last Kabaka (King...
...Late King Freddie. As Uganda neared independence a decade ago, the shrewdly opportunistic Obote skillfully manipulated the hereditary leaders of Uganda's four tribal kingdoms. He won the support of Sir Edward Mutesa II, the Kabaka of Buganda (more widely known as "King Freddie"), by promising to create a federal system that would preserve the identity of the four kingdoms. After independence in 1962, Obote became Prime Minister and the Kabaka became President. Four years later, however, Obote attempted to unify the country by ousting the Kabaka; forced into penniless exile in London, Freddie died of alcohol poisoning...
...opposition Democratic Party, and kept a watchful eye on the Buganda area, largest of the four former tribal kingdoms within Uganda. In transforming his country into a republic, Obote has harshly suppressed many of Buganda's people. Three years ago, Obote's troops drove the once powerful Kabaka of Buganda, who was known as "King Freddie," from his palace in Kampala...
Freddie fled into exile and died last month in London. The cause of death, said the coroner's report, was an extremely high level of alcohol in his bloodstream. The Kabaka's followers claimed he had been poisoned by Obote's agents and swore revenge. Outside the stadium last week police seized a man who was thought to be one of the Kabaka's followers...
...late 1870s, the ruling Kabaka welcomed the Anglican and Catholic missionaries who followed Explorer Henry Morton Stanley. But after the old king's death, the ruler's dissolute heir did not; the young man resented the fact that his Christian pages refused his homosexual advances. Finally, egged on by a jealous Prime Minister, the Kabaka determined to crush the new religion, and in one bloody, 15-month period, beginning in 1885, ordered the murders or executions of 22 Catholics and at least 23 Anglicans. Paul declared the Catholic martyrs saints...