Word: lukiko
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Into the Clink. Though he could not act openly, he managed to work effectively through Buganda's tribal chiefs, who know that should democracy come, the traditional tribal hierarchy must go. The 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...
...proposal to allocate to Africans only 20 of the 56 seats in the protectorate's new Legislative Council-less voice for 5,300,000 Africans than for 57,000 whites and Asians. The British colonials were aghast; this troublesome young man had to go, and the Lukiko (Parliament) could elect somebody more malleable to replace him. The decision, said Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, was "final...
Scarcely anybody noticed that parliamentary triumphs in London had no effect whatever in Buganda. There the Lukiko refused flatly to elect anyone to replace the Kabaka. Cohen was hissed and booed in Kampala. Thousands of the Kabaka's subjects swore never to shave until he returned. Even when the British offered concessions, the Lukiko refused to accept them in the Kabaka's absence. King Freddie, ensconced in a West End apartment at Britain's expense, behaved as a young ex-guardsman should...
Last week, in what was described as a change of "situation," not policy, a special dispatch rider from Kwini Elizabeth rode over to King Freddie's Belgravia flat with a message from Her Majesty. It said in effect that if the Buganda Lukiko (Parliament) wanted him back and was willing to accept a few constitutional reforms limiting his power, the Kabaka could go home and be king again. Unmentioned in the note was the fact that the Colonial Office, already deeply troubled by race war in Kenya and rising black nationalism in Britain's West African colonies, wants...
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...