The Democratic Party won a majority in the March 1961 legislative elections (partly as a result of low voter turnout in Buganda), and Kiwanuka became Chief Minister in the Uganda Legislative Council.
They, along with others who arrived later, were based in the court of the Kabaka of Buganda near present day Kampala.
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Kiwewa himself was overthrown by the Muslim faction in the court and was replaced by his Muslim brother, Kalema.
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Kabaka Mutesa I was known for his brutality and used the rivalries of the Anglicans, Roman Catholics and Muslims against each other to try to balance the influences of the powers that backed each group.
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His successor, Kabaka Mwanga II, took a more aggressive approach by expelling missionaries and insisting Christian converts abandon their faith on pain of torture or death.
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Mwanga II was eventually overthrown in 1888 and was replaced by his half brother, Kiwewa.
He was received as a royal guest by Mutesa, king of the Kabaka in Buganda.
He was a Member of the Monckton Commission on Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1960, and Chairman of the Commission of Privy Counsellors on the dispute between Buganda and Bunyoro in 1962.
Chesswas spent 19 years in the education service of Uganda, predominantly as Provincial Education Officer, Buganda, and finally as Officer in Charge of the Educational Planning Unit within the Ministry of Education.
Michael Kawalya Kagwa was the Katikiro (i.e. Prime Minister) of the Ugandan Kingdom of Buganda from 1945 to 1950.
Muteesa II of Buganda, the 36th Kabaka of Buganda who reigned between 1939 and 1969.
Born to a poor Roman Catholic family in Buganda, Serumaga was raised by his mother, Geraldine Namotovu.
Unyamwezi lay at a juncture where a trade route from the coast split, with one branch going west to the port of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika while another branch led north to the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro.
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Today, the great, great grandson of Muteesa I, Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, the reigning Buganda monarch, maintains a palace on the hill, with the entrance facing west, as is the tradition.
He accompanied his brother at crisis talks between the Kingdom of Buganda and the Republic of Uganda in September 2009 called after rioting in Kampala over the status of the renegade Kayunga District and the closure of a royalist Buganda radio station.
Obote's possible return was opposed by many within the UNLF, particularly those from Buganda who recalled that it was Obote who had dethroned their King (the Kabaka of Buganda) and forced him into exile in 1966.
Mwanga signed a treaty with Captain Lord Lugard in 1892, giving Buganda the status of protectorate under the authority of the British East Africa Company.
Mary, who is now 94 years old, is the granddaughter of Sir Apolo Kaggwa who was a Katikkiro (Prime Minister) in the Buganda Government, and is the daughter of Mary and Sepiriya Kaddumukasa.
Within a period of thirteen years from 1884 until 1897, Buganda witnessed the change of leadership at Mengo, six times, which was unprecedented in the kingdom.
After finishing elementary school, she was sent to Gayaza High School, a prestigious female boarding high school in Buganda, followed by Sherborne School for Girls, in England, where she was the only black student.
Whereas most societies in Uganda, like the North and North eastern communities, were loosely set up systems led by clan leaders, others like Bunyoro, Buganda, Ankole and Toro were organised kingdoms.
The income generated by cotton sales made the Buganda kingdom relatively prosperous, compared with the rest of colonial Uganda, although before World War I cotton was also being grown in the eastern regions of Busoga, Lango, and Teso.