Mutesa also sent a 36-page memorandum to Queen Elizabeth II, underscoring Buganda kingdom’s secession demand. On November 21, 1975, Prince Ronald Mutebi, the successor of Ssekabaka Sir Edward ...

High on a red hill above the sunburned plains of Equatorial Africa, in the hereditary palace surrounded by flame trees, Mutesa II, 35th directly descended Kabaka (ruler) of Buganda, one of ...

Edward Frederick William David Mukabya Mutesa II, Kabaka (King) of Buganda, is just about the most troublesome of all Britain's wards in East Africa, and last week he was making the most of his ...

And when Mutesa II demanded Buganda’s independence in 1953, he was deported to Britain where he stayed until the end of 1955. Escalation. Taking the governor’s lesson seriously, ...

Mutesa the 35th King of Buganda Kingdom is remembered to have been the first Ugandan President after the colonial rule. KAMPALA - This week marks 50 years since the late King of Buganda Edward ...

So Mutesa II continued to act as if the 1955 Agreement did not exist. Indeed, the British had to conclude another Agreement in 1961 that ultimately drew Buganda into the Uganda State.

Today marks 49 years since the ouster of Kabaka Edward Mutesa II. On that morning of May 24, 1966, Uganda’s first president and king of Buganda fled his palace at Mengo near Kampala amid a downpour.

Kabaka Mutesa II donated land for the establishment of Nakivubo Stadium in 1926. Later, Prince Kakungulu played a key role in the construction of Muteesa II Stadium at Wankulukuku in the 1950s.

At the time of independence in 1962, Sir Edward Mutesa proposed that the Buganda Emblem, the Shield and Spears (Amafumu n'Engabo) should be turned into the Uganda National Emblem but without the ...

Sir Edward Mutesa II became the first president of an independent Uganda in 1963. He was also, as Kabaka of Buganda, the new country’s most significant king.