Mutesa II

Mutesa II

▪ king of Buganda
in full  Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa 
born Nov. 19, 1924
died Nov. 21, 1969, London, Eng.

      kabaka (ruler) of the East African state of Buganda (now part of Uganda) in 1939–53 and 1955–66; he was deposed in 1953 by the British and again in 1966 by Milton Obote (Obote, Milton), president of independent Uganda.

      During the 1940s Mutesa, called “King Freddie” by the Western press, was essentially controlled by the British resident and his katikiro (prime minister) and was personally rather unpopular. In the “Kabaka crisis” of 1953, when loss of the privileged position of the kingdom of Buganda within the protectorate of Uganda seemed imminent, he had to take an unyielding stand in meetings with the governor of Uganda or completely alienate many of his increasingly suspicious and anti-British subjects. His key demands were for separation of Buganda from the rest of Uganda and a promise of independence. When he refused to communicate British formal recommendations to his Lukiko (parliament), he was arrested and deported. Buganda leaders engineered his return in 1955, ostensibly as a constitutional monarch, but one with a great deal of influence in the Buganda government.

      When Uganda became independent, Prime Minister Obote first hoped to placate the Ganda by encouraging Mutesa's election as president (a nonexecutive post) in 1963. A conflict over the role and over the continued integrity of the Buganda kingdom within Uganda followed. When Mutesa tried to foment discontent between the traditionally stateless northerners and the southern “kingdom” members, Obote suspended the constitution. The conflict escalated rapidly, and in 1966 Mutesa was forced to flee to Britain, where he died in exile.

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