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Title:Was the kingdom sacred?
Author:Southwold, M.
Year:1967
Periodical:Mawazo
Volume:1
Issue:2
Pages:17-23
Language:English
Geographic term:Uganda
Subject:monarchy
Abstract:The contention that the Kabakaship of Buganda was to some extent a sacred institution although not 'divine' is examined through an investigation of remarkable features of Ganda views on and about the kingship. The characteristics of the way Baganda think and feel about their kingship have made it much more difficult, apparently even impossible, for the institution to be accomodated to the developing realities of modern Africa. Clearly non-Baganda, and more particularly an elected Prime Minister of Uganda, could not tolerate the Kabaka's exercising of real power as Head of State. On the other hand, for Baganda, and perhaps most critically Sir Edward Muteesa himself, the idea of high office without power was so contradictory that it could not consistently guide conduct. Reference is made to the book 'The Desecration of My Kingdom', by 'King Freddie' the Kabaka of Buganda.
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