While some of you pursue the tales from Radio Katwe, brought up by some of you with the hope of expunging the scandal we all know by now about Kabaka Mutebi, do be aware of something I learnt in P.5.
You may have heard about Kabaka Sewanaku Kiggala Mukabya Kasungubu, the gentleman who reigned up to 1494 as the 5th Kabaka. After abdication, on accusation of being incestuous, he was succeeded by his 6th son Ntege Kiyimba who reigned up to 1484, followed by a 10 yr interregnum. Kiyimba was supposed to be succeeded by his brother (Kiggala's 9th son), Wampamba. However, the latter was barred from being Kabaka because of of his incestuous ways that made him get involved with his aunt, Nakayima, the daughter of Gunju, Kiggala's brother.
The product of that latter incest was Kayima Ssendikadiwa the 7th Kabaka from 1494, from whom even the present Kabakaship is traceable. That Kabaka was essentially his own father's cousin. The rest of the Buganda Royal House for the last 518 years and 7 months is traceable to that piece of incest.
But let us leve the middle ages and we go to the more modern times. Look for a book of these details:
Hyam, Ronald (2007), Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918-1968 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Check on Page 195 of that book and find that Governor Andrew Cohen was describing Kabaka Edward Mutesa II as a man who led an "impossible private life". There is also reference to the opinion of Mr Lyttleton who noted that Kabaka Mutesa II was "a rascal of first order" who had practised "every perversity from incest with his sister to homosexuality and every indulgence from drinks to drugs". Where did such claims originate from? Did the Cohens etc also have Radio Katwe?
Try also if you can and find a secret document...now declassified titled "The Personal character of the Kabaka of Buganda Mutesa II" (CO822/747). When you find it, let us discuss it privately. Strictly privately.
Lance Corporal (Rtd) Patrick Otto
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