Word: luwangula
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...beneath its silver dome lived the Kabaka (ruler) of Buganda, largest and richest of Uganda's five ancient kingdoms. Buganda's rulers were so powerful in colonial days that they were always granted considerable autonomy by the British. Cambridge-educated Sir Edward F. W. Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula ("Freddy") Mutesa II, who succeeded to the throne in 1942, almost automatically became the nation's first President when it got its independence four years ago. Last week, however, Uganda erupted into a onesided, brutal civil war, and when the fighting had died down the sacred palace of Buganda...
...noise announced the return of their beloved Kabaka (King). Thousands of gallons of banana beer had been brewed, garlands fashioned, 16 arches constructed over the processional route with banners proclaiming: "He has triumphed." Stiffly upright in his immaculate grey suit, 31-year-old Edward William Frederick David Walugembe Luwangula Mutebi-Kabaka Mutesi II-bowed stiffly to the right and left from his Rolls-Royce convertible as it rolled triumphantly toward his palace in Kampala past throngs of his screaming, weeping, dancing subjects. They beat their cheeks in the Baganda brand of war whoop, thumped tom-toms, flung themselves prostrate...
...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...
...midst of the deluge and the panic, the Sacred Lake itself burst its banks and ran dry. For old Mwanga's grandson, 27-year-old King Edward Frederick William David Walugumbe Muterbi Luwangula Mutesa II, this was the most worrisome blow of all. A local legend holds that when the Sacred Lake runs dry, the King must die. Cambridge-educated King Mutesa II does not believe such legends ; his chief fear is that his restless subjects, who are not Cambridge-educated, might use force to carry out the old prophecy...
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