Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II (modern spelling: Muteesa) (19 November 1924 – 21 November 1969) was
Kabaka
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of the
Kingdom of Buganda
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in Uganda from 22 November 1939 until his death. He was the thirty-fifth Kabaka of Buganda and the first
president of Uganda
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. The foreign press often referred to him as King Freddie, a name rarely used in
Uganda
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. An ardent defender of Buganda's interests, especially its traditional autonomy, he often threatened to make the kingdom independent both before and after Uganda's independence to preserve it. These firm convictions also later led to conflicts with his erstwhile political ally
Milton Obote
Apollo Milton Obote (28 December 1925 – 10 October 2005) was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence from British colonial rule in 1962. Following the nation's independence, he served as prime minister of Uganda from 1962 to ...
, who would eventually overthrow him.
Mutesa was crowned Kabaka on his 18th birthday in 1942, three years after the death of his father
Daudi Cwa II of Buganda
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Life
He was born on 8 August 1896, at Mengo. He was the fi ...
during
British colonial rule
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in Uganda. In 1953, he attempted to have Buganda secede to retain the kingdom's independence from a proposed British colonial federation in East Africa. He was deposed and exiled by British colonial governor
Andrew Cohen, but was allowed to return to the country two years later in the wake of
popular backlash under the terms of the 1955
Buganda Agreement.
In the years preceding Uganda's independence from the United Kingdom in 1962, Mutesa became part of the monarchist
Kabaka Yekka party which then formed a coalition with
Milton Obote
Apollo Milton Obote (28 December 1925 – 10 October 2005) was a Ugandan political leader who led Uganda to independence from British colonial rule in 1962. Following the nation's independence, he served as prime minister of Uganda from 1962 to ...
's
Uganda People's Congress. The year after Uganda's independence, Mutesa was named the first President of Uganda (then a non-executive position) in 1963 with Obote as Prime Minister. Mutesa's alliance with Obote collapsed in 1964 over the
Ugandan lost counties referendum. It
worsened in 1966, resulting in Obote overthrowing him and forcing him into exile in the United Kingdom, where he died three years later.
Early life
Mutesa was born at the house of
Albert Ruskin Cook in
Makindye
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,
Kampala
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, on 19 November 1924, the fifth son of the Kabaka
Daudi Cwa II, who reigned between 1897 and 1939.
Mutesa's mother was Lady Irene Drusilla Namaganda, of the Nte clan. He was educated at
King's College Budo, a prestigious school in Uganda.
Upon the death of his father on 22 November 1939, he was elected Kabaka by the
Lukiiko
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at the age of 15 and was installed outside the
Lubiri
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at
Mengo on 25 November 1939. He reigned under a
Council of Regents until he came of age and assumed full powers.
Education
He attended
King's College Budo before he went to England to complete his education at
Magdalene College, Cambridge
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, where he joined the University
Officer Training Corps and was subsequently commissioned as a captain in the
Grenadier Guards
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Reign
Mutesa II was crowned as ''
Kabaka
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'' at
Buddo on 19 November 1942, his eighteenth birthday. At that time,
Buganda
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was still part of the
Uganda Protectorate
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, a territory within the
British Empire
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.
The years between 1945 and 1950 saw widespread protests against both the
Governor of Uganda's and ''Kabaka'' Mutesa's governments.
In the early 1950s the British Government floated the idea of uniting
British East Africa
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(Uganda,
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) into a federation. Africans feared that this would lead to their coming under the control of Kenya's white settler community, as had happened in the
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
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. The Baganda, fearing they would lose the limited autonomy they had under British rule, were particularly opposed. Mutesa himself opposed the proposal, and thus came into conflict with the British Governor,
Sir Andrew Cohen, prompting the
Kabaka crisis. In 1953, the ''
Lukiiko
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'' (Parliament) of Buganda sought independence from the Uganda Protectorate, with Mutesa himself demanding that Buganda be separated from the rest of the
protectorate
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of Uganda and transferred to
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jurisdiction. Governor Cohen's response was to depose and exile the ''Kabaka'' on 30 November, creating massive protests among the Baganda. Mutesa's forced departure, carried out by Wing Commander
Clive Beadon, made him a martyr in the eyes of the Baganda, whose latent separatism set off a storm of protest. Cohen could find no one among the Baganda willing and able to mobilise support for his schemes. After two years of unrelenting Ganda hostility and obstruction, Cohen was forced to reinstate "Kabaka Freddie", who returned to
Kampala
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on 17 October 1955 under a negotiated settlement which made him a
constitutional monarch
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and gave the Baganda the right to elect representatives to the kingdom's parliament, the ''Lukiiko''. Mutesa's standing up to Cohen greatly boosted his popularity in the kingdom.
In 1962, Uganda became independent from Britain under the leadership of
Milton Obote
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. Under the country's new constitution, the
Kingdom of Buganda
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became a semi-autonomous part of a new Ugandan federation. The federal Prime Minister was Obote, the leader of the
Uganda People's Congress (UPC), which entered a governing coalition with the dominant Buganda regional party,
Kabaka Yekka. The post of
Governor-General of Uganda
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was abolished with the attainment of republican status and replaced by a non-executive President.
Obote and the UPC reached a deal with Mutesa to support his election to the Presidency of Uganda. In a session of Parliament on 4 October 1963, Mutesa was elected President via secret ballot with the support of over two thirds of the members.
In 1964, the coalition between Mutesa and Obote's parties collapsed over the imposition, against Mutesa's will, of a
referendum to decide the fate of two "lost counties". Residents of the two counties voted overwhelmingly in favour of their return from
Buganda
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to
Bunyoro
Bunyoro or Bunyoro-Kitara is a Bantu kingdom in Western Uganda. It was one of the most powerful kingdoms in Central and East Africa from the 13th century to the 19th century. It is ruled by the King ('' Omukama'') of Bunyoro-Kitara. The curre ...
. In 1966, Mutesa's estrangement from Obote merged with
another crisis. Obote faced a possible removal from office by factional infighting within his own party. He had the other four leading members of his party arrested and detained, and then suspended the federal constitution and declared himself
President of Uganda
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in February 1966, deposing Mutesa. The Buganda regional Parliament passed a resolution in May 1966 declaring that ''de jure'' Buganda's incorporation into Uganda had ended with the suspension of the constitution and requesting the federal government to vacate the capital city, which was in Buganda. Obote responded with
an armed attack upon the ''
Kabaka
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''s palace, sending Mutesa into exile in the United Kingdom via
Burundi
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, and in 1967 a new constitution abolished all of Uganda's kingdoms, including Buganda.
The final years
While in exile, Mutesa wrote an autobiography, ''The Desecration of My Kingdom''.
Mutesa died of alcohol
poison
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ing in his London flat, No. 28 Orchard House in
Rotherhithe
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, in 1969.
Identified by the
Metropolitan Police
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as suicide, the death has been viewed as assassination by those who claim Mutesa may have been force-fed
vodka
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by agents of the
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regime. Mutesa was interviewed in his flat only a few hours before his death by the British journalist
John Simpson, who found that he was sober and in good spirits. Simpson reported this to the police the following day on hearing of Mutesa's death, but this line of inquiry was not pursued.
After Mutesa's body had been embalmed by
Desmond Henley,
it was returned to Uganda in 1971 after the overthrow of Obote and given a state funeral at
Kasubi Nabulagala. The president who ordered the state funeral was
Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada Oumee (, ; 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal despots in modern w ...
, who as army commander had led the assault on Mutesa's palace in 1966. It is said that while in exile in London, "King Freddie" lived in poverty.
Quotes
"Our way of life has been altered – improved – in external things by the advent of the British, while the basic beliefs and way of life have remained … but the sense of identity is precisely what has remained."
"I have never been able to pin down precisely the difference between a tribe and a nation and see why one is thought so despicable and the other is so admired. Whichever we are, the Baganda have a common language, tradition, history and cast of mind. We are proud of them, but not to such an extent that we cannot be friends with – marry if we wish – other people … our pride is legitimate."
[Mutesa, Sir Edward F]
''Desecration of My Kingdom''
Constable, 1967, p. 59.
Quotes about Mutesa II
"Mutesa II's life is a human story - one of a young and ambitious African monarch who struggled to defend the heritage of his forefathers and emancipate his people from the clutches of a powerful imperial authority."
* Apollo N. Makubuya, ''Reflections on the Triple Heritage of an African King, Knight and President'' (2019)
"The castigation of our cultural ideals as tribalistic, backward, and, therefore, not meant for 'civilised people' in modern times could have inspired Mutesa II, on whose very shoulders lay the responsibility to jealously guard the cherished ideals of Buganda in 'modern' Uganda to re-echo in simple terms the significance of these qualities to the politicians of the day."
* Jonathan Mwesigwa S., ''Federalism: The Most Suitable Form of Governance for Uganda'' (2013).
"... many will say that he was ill-advised to put the Illusions of a bygone tribal glory against the claims of a modern African state; but no one can question the devotion with which he spent himself for his people and their well-being."
* Rev. John Taylor, speaking at Mutesa II's funeral service in 1969.
Married life
Mutesa married Lady Damali in 1948. He is said to have fathered many children with her and twelve other women:
# Nnaabakyala Damali Catherine Nnakawombe, the
Nnabagereka, daughter of Christopher Kisosonkole of the Nkima clan. Wedding on 19 November 1948 at
St. Paul's Cathedral Namirembe.
# Lady Edith Kasozi
# Omubiitokati (Princess) Beatrice Kabasweka, a
Mutoro from Toro.
# Lady Kate Ndagire. Married in 1950
# Nnaabakyala Sarah Nalule, Omuzaana Kabejja, sister of the
Nnabagereka, and daughter of Christopher Kisosonkole of the Nkima clan. Married in 1954.
# Lady Nalwooga. She died in 2003.
#
Lady Nesta M. Rugumayo, a
Mutoro, from Toro
# Lady Kaakako Rwanchwende, a
Munyankole princess from
Ankole
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.
# Lady Winifred Keihangwe, a
Munyankole princess from
Ankole
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. She was imprisoned by
Milton Obote
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and released only shortly before going into
labour, in 1966.
# Lady Zibiah Wangari Ngatho, a
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, from
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, Kenya.
# Lady Catherine Karungu, a
Munyankole princess from
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# Lady Naome Nanyonga, of Nsenene clan from Masaka Buddu. Naome Nanyonga was a midwife and is the founder of Sunga Maternity Hospital. She died in 2006.
# Lady Margaret Nakato of
Nkumba
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, Busiro County.
Issue
Mutesa is recorded to have fathered at least 14 sons and 9 daughters:
# Prince Kiweewa Luswata. The first son of Kabaka Muteesa II. He was born in
Wakiso
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Location
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. He lived and studied in France. He died in the early 1990s and was buried at
Kasubi Tombs, Nabulagala.
# Prince Robert Masamba Kimera, whose mother was Nesta M. Rugumayo. He was born in
Kampala
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in 1950. He was educated at
St. Mary's College Kisubi
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and
King's College Budo and in Canada. He worked as a geologist with the
Swaziland
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Department of Geology between 1980 and 1983. He was a lecturer at the Nakawa Vocational School from 1991 until 1992. In 1993, he settled in Canada.
# Prince (Omulangira) David Francis Ssuuna Kayima Ssezzibwa. Was born in Kitovu Masaka. His mother was Muzaana Mary Nabweteme of the Lungfish (Mmamba) clan. He was a teacher and a psychologist. Died in Denmark and was interred in Bugembegembe royal tombs in Wakiso.
#
Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, whose mother was Sarah Nalule.
# Prince (Omulangira) Ssuuna Frederick Wampamba, whose mother was Edith Kasozi. He was a commissioned
2nd lieutenant
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Australia
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in the Uganda Army. He was killed on the orders of
Idi Amin
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at
Bombo in 1972. He is buried at the Kasubi Tombs in Nabulagala.
# Prince (Omulangira) Henry Kalemeera, whose mother was Damali Nnakawombe. He was educated at King's College, Buddo and
Addis Ababa University
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, Ethiopia. He is an
aeronautical engineer
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. He settled in the United States. Worked or still works as a
flight engineer
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with
American Airlines
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.
# Prince (Omulangira) George Michael Ndawula, whose mother was Muzaana Nalwoga.
# Prince (Omulangira) Joseph Ndawula, Whose mother was Muzaana Nzera Nabakooza. He has worked with the foreign services and still serves as
Uganda's High Commissioner to Namibia
# Prince (Omulangira) Richard Walugembe Bamweyana, whose mother was Sarah Nalule. He was born in 1956, educated at
Achimota School
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,
Ghana
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, and worked in the fashion and advertising industries. He died in the 2000s. He was buried at Kasubi Tombs in Nabulagala.
# Prince (Omulangira) Katabaazi Mukarukidi, whose mother was Damali Nnakawombe. He is an airline pilot in Nigeria.
# Prince (Omulangira) Patrick Nakibinge, whose mother was Sarah Nalule. He died in the 2000s and is buried at Kasubi Tombs in Nabulagala.
# Prince (Omulangira) Daudi Golooba. He was educated at
King's College Budo and
Makerere University
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. He is an accountant. He is a founding member and chairman of the
Buganda Heritage Association of the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland (founded in 1998). He settled in the UK.
# Prince (Omulangira) Herbert Kateregga, whose mother was Kaakako Rwanchwende. He settled in the UK.
#Prince (Omulangira) Fredrick Mawanda Mutebi. He was born in 1965 to Muzaana Specioza Namagembe. He died and was interred in Bugembegembe royal tombs in Wakiso district.
# Prince (Omulangira)
Daudi Kintu Wasajja, whose mother was Winifred Keihangwe. He was born in Kampala in May 1966, after his father had left Uganda. He was educated at the
University of Nottingham
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in the UK, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. He worked as an executive underwriter for
Pan World Insurance Company and as a regional retail manager for Celtel (Uganda) Limited (now
Airtel Uganda Limited). He is a member of Buganda Land Board, Kabira Country Club, Hash Harriers Athletic Club, and others. Lives in Kampala.
# Princess (Omumbejja) Dorothy Kabonesa Naamukaabya Nassolo, whose mother was Damali Nakawombe. She was born at the
Mengo Palace in 1951. She is a graduate of the
University of Nairobi
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. Lives in Kampala.
# Princess (Omumbejja) Dina Kigga Mukarukidi, whose mother was Beatrice Kabasweka. She works at the headquarters of the
African Union
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in
Addis Ababa
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, Ethiopia.
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# Princess (Omumbejja) Anne Sarah Kagere Nandawula, whose mother is Kate Ndagire. Born at Mengo in 1951.][
# Princess (Omumbejja) Catherine Agnes Nabaloga, whose mother was Kate Ndagire. She was installed as the Lubuga at the coronation of her brother Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, the thirty-sixth Kabaka of Buganda, who has reigned since 1993. Princess Nabaloga is the patron of Buganda Heritage Association in Denmark, founded in 1998. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in ]linguistics
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# Princess (Omumbejja) Alice Mpologoma Zaalwango, whose mother was Edith Kasozi. She was born in 1961. She was educated at Gayaza Junior School, Kibuli High School, and Makerere University. She died in Pretoria
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, South Africa from breast cancer on 23 March 2005. She is buried at Kasubi
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Location
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# Princess (Omumbejja) Stella Alexandria Sserwamutanda Ndagire. Born in Nairobi, Kenya. Her mother was Zibiah Wangari Ngatho, a Kikuyu Kikuyu or Gikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) mostly refers to an ethnic group in Kenya or its associated language.
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*Kikuyu people, a majority ethnic group in Kenya
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. She was raised in Kampala and Nairobi. Settled in Atlanta, Georgia
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, U.S.
# Princess (Omumbejja) Jane Mpologoma Nabanakulya. Born in Sunga Village, Buyaga County, Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, on 12 April 1964. Omuzaana Naome Nanyonga was her mother. In 2003, she moved to London
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, England, where she lives with her husband David Segawa Mukasa.
# Princess (Omumbejja) Gertrude Christine Naabanaakulya Tebattagwabwe. Was born at Mengo Hospital on 20 August 1964. Her mother is Margaret Nakato of Nkumba, Busiro County. Grew up in Uganda until the age of nine, when she relocated to London, England. Studied to become an accountant. Moved back to Uganda in May 2013.
# Diana Balizzamuggale Teyeggala. She is the youngest child. She was born in Kampala in October 1966, after her father had gone into exile. Her mother is Catherine Karungu, an Ankole princess. Teyeggala never saw her father alive. She resides in Kampala.
See also
* History of Uganda
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* List of unsolved deaths
This list of unsolved deaths includes well-known cases where:
* The cause of death could not be officially determined.
* The person's identity could not be established after they were found dead.
* The cause is known, but the manner of death (homi ...
* Political parties of Uganda
This article lists political parties in Uganda. Until a Ugandan multi-party referendum, 2005, constitutional referendum in July 2005, only one political organization, the National Resistance Movement, Movement (also called the National Resistance ...
* Politics of Uganda
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References
Further reading
* Kasozi, A. B. K. (2013). ''The Bitter Bread of Exile. The Financial Problems of Sir Edward Mutesa II during his final exile, 1966-1969: The Financial Problems of Sir Edward Mutesa II during his final exile, 1966-1969''. Progressive Publishing House.
* Makubuya, Apollo (2019). ''Sir Edward Frederick L. Mutesa II: Reflections on the Triple Heritage Of An African King, Knight and President''. New Vision Printing and Publishing.
* Mutesa, Sir Edward Frederick (1967). ''Desecration of my Kingdom''. Constable.
External links
List of Kings of Buganda
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Ugandan emigrants to the United Kingdom
Ugandan exiles
Ugandan writers
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