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The Kakamega Club of Buganda
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2008
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In March 1961 the Democratic Party won the national elections in Uganda largely because it captured o of the 21 seats within the Kingdom of Buganda. The Buganda Government had ordered a boycott of the elections, because neither the British administration nor the African political parties would guarantee Buganda's future position within Uganda, and all but three per cent of the electorate stayed away from the polls. The Democratic Party took office despised within Buganda because it had defied the Kabaka, and feared by his Protestant advisers because of its predominantly Catholic support.
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Page 131 note 1 This note is based on interviews during 1965 and 1969–70, and research into the personal files of S. K. Masembe-Kabali which are in the Library of Makerere University, Kampala. The two most relevant are listed as 67 (Kakamega Club) and 71 (ii) (Kabaka Yekka).
Page 131 note 2 Quoted by Hancock, I. R., ‘Patriotism and Neo-Traditionalism in Buganda: the Kabaka Yekka (“he King Alone”) Movement, 1961–1962’, in The Journal of African History (Cambridge), XI, 3, 1970, p. 423.Google Scholar
Page 131 note 3 See the minutes of the meeting held on 24 May 1961; Makerere, file 71 (ii).
Page 132 note 1 This explanation of the adoption of the name is based on the minutes of the meeting held on 2 May 1958, and an interview with A. Tamale, on 11 May 1969.
Page 132 note 2 Letter from Y. B. Katwe to all members; Makerere, file 67.
Page 132 note 3 Minutes of the meeting held on 2 May 1959.
Page 132 note 4 This authority does not appear to have been exercised either before or after 1959. But there was one piece of unpleasantness. A letter from unknown persons dated i o February 1956, accused E. S. Lubobi of being a ‘traitor who hates the Kabaka’ and who did not want him to return from exile. Lubobi was suspended, and the executive committee investigated the charges; but no proof could be found, and Lubobi rejoined Kakamega; minutes of the meetings held on 10 May and 6 June 1956. The value of this anonymous letter may well be as an example of the method and style of character assassination then so common in Ganda society and politics.
Page 133 note 1 Minutes of the meeting held on 27 February 1956. But for an earlier contrary decision, see ibid. 18 November 1955.
Page 133 note 2 Ibid. 12 January 1957.
Page 134 note 1 Letter of 28 December 1956 from H. F. Pulle; ibid.
Page 134 note 2 Interview with A. Tamale, 11 March 1969.
Page 134 note 3 See the resolutions of the meeting held on 23 September 1955.
Page 134 note 5 For complaints about being excluded from the Kabaka's counsels, see minutes of the meeting held on 29 November 1958.
Page 134 note 5 Interviews with E. M. K. Mulira, 11 May 1965, and I. K. Musazi, 26 march 1969.
Page 135 note 1 Interviews with S. K. Masembe-Kabali, 9 May 1965, and L. Mpagi, 8 August 1965.