Word: kiwanuka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribalists still dominate the Lukiko (Buganda's Parliament). On one pretext or another, Freddie's supporters went after the leaders of those newfangled political parties with their talk of popular elections. They ousted two party presidents from the Lukiko, even had National Congress Party Chairman Joseph Kiwanuka tossed into jail on the charge that he was plotting to assassinate the King. Last month the Lukiko rejected a plan to hold direct elections for Buganda's five delegates to the British-sponsored Legislative Council of Uganda, followed up with a resolution withdrawing official recognition from all political parties...
BISHOP JOSEPH KIWANUKA, of Masaka in Uganda, was consecrated at Rome in 1939, the first native African bishop of modern times. Swirling round his diocese in a 1956 Chevrolet and a cloud of dust. Bishop Kiwanuka, 58, oversees the work of 58 African priests, plus 15 white priests who work as teachers in schools and seminaries, are being replaced as native priests are trained to fill their posts. Many Masaka seminarians take specialist courses outside Africa after their ordination, and Bishop Kiwanuka himself hopes to make his second visit to the U.S. next year to study sociology. His biggest problem...
...Milan. Rufino Santos of Manila, Richard J. Gushing of Boston, Tatsuo Doi of Tokyo, William Godfrey of Westminster, Francis König of Vienna, John Landazuri Ricketts of Lima, Peru, and Joseph Maria Bueno y Monreal of Seville. A Negro cardinal for Africa is likely; candidates include Archbishop Joseph Kiwanuka of Uganda and Bishop Aloysius Bigirumwani of Nyundo...
...Bishop Kiwanuka did not say just how much he had been able to raise of the $250,000 he was hoping for. But apparently it was enough for a good start on the new African seminary he dreamed about. "The Holy Father was right," he mused as he boarded a plane for Europe. "I find Americans are very good, very kind, very charitable...
Last week Africa's black, broad-smiling Bishop Kiwanuka ended a crowded four months' visit to the U.S. He was impressed by Manhattan's "forest of tall buildings" and the great bridges that span U.S. rivers. He was less impressed by a professional hockey game ("too rough"). But he was most impressed of all by the enthusiasm for himself and his cause which he found everywhere he went...