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...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 Mau Mau Leader Dedan Kimathi to kill Britain's Queen if she came to visit gave the final jolt to the British governor's jangled nerves...
...Snaps. For weeks as Elizabeth approached Uganda, Non-Smoker Sir Andrew had gone about distractedly nibbling ginger snaps and calling Whitehall at all hours of the day and night. One result of his agitated conferences with London was a last-minute cancellation of the Queen's visit to Kampala. But even with the ceremonial greetings restricted largely to his own well-guarded Government House at Entebbe, Sir Andrew felt far from secure. Last week, on Cohen's lawn, Acholi warriors and women, adorned with leopard skins, ostrich feathers and giraffe tails, pranced to the beat of jungle drums...
...miles north of the equator, not far from where the Nile rises, the Mountains of the Moon face east towards a mighty lake that could drown the state of West Virginia. On the northern shore of Lake Victoria sits Kampala (pop. 22,000), the chief city of the British protectorate of Uganda and the ancient tribal capital of 1,300,000 Baganda tribesmen...
...Kampala, like Rome, is built on seven hills. There are Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, a glittering white mosque and a Hindu temple, each on its separate hilltop. Makerere College, the university of East Africa, occupies hill No. 5; on the sixth live 2,000 Britons, communing-or so it 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...
This week the Duke of Gloucester breaks sod on a hill outside Kampala, capital of Buganda, principal kingdom of Uganda, for the stone buildings of Makerere College for Higher Education, first all-Negro university in East Africa. Recommended by a Royal Commission on Higher Education, the university will speak English, will teach the arts, science, agriculture, medicine, education, veterinary science and engineering to bright young blacks of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar...