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subjects or having to disregard the British Government and, as a result, violate
the 1900 agreement
in which he and his people were bound to co-operate loyally
with Britain in return for protection. He
ultimately decided to take the latter
course and to request that Buganda should be granted
independence,
notwithstanding the adverse impact such a development would have on the other
regions
of the protectorate. Consequently, he was deported for two years to
Britain by the Governor, Sir Andrew
Cohen.

An
agreement made in 1957 soon proved valueless. Parties emerged which
demanded self-government with
increasing insistance, yet were at the same time
so unconstructively critical of British proposals (the
Hancock Commission had
recommended that Buganda should not be permitted to secede, and that
the
powers of the Kabaka be reduced) that the existing government was all the less
inclined to
negotiate with them. It was somewhat surprising, therefore, that
similar recommendations put forward in
1961 (MacLeod appointed another
commision, under Lord Munster – this too recommended that Buganda should
not
be allowed to secede), should have found general acceptance at a conference in
London. Finally,
due to some unexpected party manoeuvring in Uganda, the
proposals were accepted. Uganda managed to adopt
a stable central government
which, nonetheless, permitted Buganda and some other regions to preserve
a
federal relationship with the centre at Kampala. Uganda became independent in
October, 1962.
Milton Obote, a representative of the Lango people, became Prime
Minister, with a coalition government
composed of members of his own Uganda
People’s Congress and of the Kabaka party, the radicals and the
traditionalists.
The Kabaka himself was installed as first President when Uganda followed the
now
customary practice of becoming a republic within the Commonwealth, in
October 1963. The process of
gradual self-government in the rest of Africa and
in other parts of the world took a similar pattern, as
was said earlier on, under the
Conservatives, until 1963.

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