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...time Uganda was granted independence by the British in 1962, the Asians, who were better educated and more enterprising than the majority of the Africans with whom they dealt, ran four out of five businesses in the country, and had monopolized the important coffee and cotton industries. Black Ugandans resented both the Asians' economic dominance and their social exclusiveness. Nonetheless, at least 23,000 of the estimated 90,000 Asians in Uganda in 1962 applied for Ugandan citizenship. Most of the rest retained their British passports...
Four days later, Freddie was buried beside the graves of three former Kings of Buganda: his father, Sir Daudi Chwa; his grandfather, Mwanga, who executed the 22 Ugandan Catholics who were canonized in 1964; and his great-grandfather, Mutesa I. Freddie has an heir. Prince Mutebi, 16, who lives in Britain; but the boy is not likely to become King. Amin has repeatedly said that the kabakaship died with the unfortunate King Freddie...
...Vise. When Kenya and Uganda adopted policies of Africanization, the Asians were caught in a vise. Preference in business licensing and government jobs went to blacks, or in a few cases to Asians who had taken out Kenyan or Ugandan citizenship. Many Asians who had spent their entire lives in East Africa found, like Ranjan, that they could no longer get jobs. But neither could they emigrate to Britain...
...touchiest issues for Roman Catholicism is the reintroduction of African culture into the church. Most converts have long identified Catholicism with the Western European liturgy that they first learned. (TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief James Bell reported last week from Kampala that the Credo sung by Ugandan Catholics during the Pope's visit to Rubaga Cathedral was the purest Latin he had ever heard.) Until recently, older converts and African priests had resisted such innovations as Mass in the vernacular, native songs, instruments and dances, looking on them as part of their rejected past. Experimental native works like...
Seeking Sovereignty. The suffering has not brought the two sides any closer to resuming diplomatic talks, which were broken off last month in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. The federal government demands that the Biafrans acknowledge that they are citizens of one country-Nigeria-before any serious bargaining can begin. On the other hand, the Biafrans, who walked out of the Kampala conference, insist on a cease-fire before talking further, since such an agreement would give them the status of a sovereign equal in any negotiations. Ojukwu himself admits that if the war turns into a guerrilla fight...