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Mengo Crisis, the Glossary

The Buganda Crisis, also called the 1966 Mengo Crisis, the Kabaka Crisis, or the 1966 Crisis, domestically, was a period of political turmoil that occurred in Buganda.^[1]

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Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa (fountain of hot mineral water, new flower) is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia.

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Baganda

The Baganda (endonym: Baganda; singular Muganda) also called Waganda, are a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda.

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Buganda

Buganda is a Bantu kingdom within Uganda.

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Bunyoro

Bunyoro, also called Bunyoro-Kitara, is a traditional Bantu kingdom in Western Uganda.

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Burundi

Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christophe Gbenye (1927 – 3 February 2015) was a Congolese politician, trade unionist, and rebel who, along with Gaston Soumialot, led the Simba rebellion, an anti-government insurrection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Congo Crisis, between 1964 and 1965.

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Daudi Ochieng

Daudi Ochieng, sometimes styled Ocheng, (1925– 1 June 1966) was a Ugandan politician, who served as secretary general of the Kabaka Yekka (KY) party and Opposition Chief Whip (from 1965).

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Democratic Party (Uganda)

The Democratic Party (Chama cha Kidemokrasia; DP) is a moderate conservative political party in Uganda led by Norbert Mao.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Deutsche Welle

("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.

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East African Court of Appeal

The East African Court of Appeal (EACA) was a court which served as the appellate court for the British colonies in eastern Africa and west Asia.

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East African shilling

The East African shilling was the sterling unit of account in British-controlled areas of East Africa from 1921 until 1969.

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Egbert Udo Udoma

Sir Egbert Udo Udoma, KBE, (21 June 1917 – 2 February 1998)Reuben Abati,, Nigerian Village Square, 8 March 2009.

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Emmanuel Lumu

Emmanuel Bijjugo Sajjalyabene Lumu (February 1916 – 11 December 2019) was a Ugandan physician and politician.

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Emmanuel Nsubuga

Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga (5 November 1914 – 20 April 1991) was a Uganda Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Kampala from 1966 to 1990 and as a cardinal from 1976 until his death.

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Emmanuel Wamala

Emmanuel Wamala (born 15 December 1926) is a Ugandan Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Kampala from 1990 to 2006.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Felix Onama

Felix Kenyi Onama (born; died before 2002) was a Ugandan politician, who served as a minister in the government of Milton Obote (1962–71).

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Grace Ibingira

Grace Stuart Katebariirwe Ibingira (23 May 1932 – December 1995) was a Ugandan lawyer and politician.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin) is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful.

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Idi Amin

Idi Amin Dada Oumee (30 May 192816 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979.

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International law

International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Jehoash Mayanja Nkangi

Jehoash Ssibakyalyawo Mayanja Nkangi or Joash Mayanja Nkangi (22 August 1932 – 6 March 2017) was a Ugandan lawyer, civil servant and politician.

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Julius Nyerere

Julius Kambarage Nyerere (13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999) was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician and political theorist.

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Kabaka crisis

The Kabaka crisis was a political and constitutional crisis in the Uganda Protectorate between 1953 and 1955 wherein the Kabaka Mutesa II pressed for Bugandan secession from the Uganda Protectorate and was subsequently deposed and exiled by the British governor Andrew Cohen. Mengo Crisis and Kabaka crisis are Buganda.

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Kabaka of Buganda

Kabaka is the title of the king of the Kingdom of Buganda. Mengo Crisis and Kabaka of Buganda are Buganda.

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Kabaka Yekka

Kabaka Yekka, commonly abbreviated as KY, was a monarchist political movement and party in Uganda.

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Kampala

Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda.

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Karamoja

The Karamoja sub-region, commonly known as Karamoja, is a region in Uganda.

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Katikkiro of Buganda

Katikkiro is the official title of the head of cabinet and government in Buganda under the Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda. Mengo Crisis and Katikkiro of Buganda are Buganda.

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Lubiri

Lubiri (or Mengo Palace) is the royal compound of the Kabaka or king of Buganda, located in Mengo, a suburb of Kampala, the Ugandan capital. Mengo Crisis and Lubiri are Buganda.

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Lukiiko

The Lukiiko (sometimes Great Lukiiko) is the Parliament of the Kingdom of Buganda. Mengo Crisis and Lukiiko are Buganda.

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Michael Kintu

Michael Kintu (– 1964) was a Ugandan politician who served as Katikkiro (chief minister) of the Kingdom of Buganda from 1955 to 1964.

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Milton Obote

Apollo Milton Obote (28 December 1925 – 10 October 2005) was a Ugandan politician who served as the second prime minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and the second president of Uganda from 1966 to 1971 and later from 1980 to 1985.

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Mutesa II of Buganda

Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II (19 November 1924 – 21 November 1969) was Kabaka, or king, of the Kingdom of Buganda in Uganda from 22 November 1939 until his death.

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Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya.

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Ottoman Bank

The Ottoman Bank (Osmanlı Bankası), known from 1863 to 1925 as the Imperial Ottoman Bank (Banque Impériale Ottomane, بانق عثمانی شاهانه) and correspondingly referred to by its French acronym BIO, was a bank that played a major role in the financial history of the Ottoman Empire.

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Parliament of Uganda

The parliament of Uganda is the country's unicameral legislative body.

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Parliamentary immunity

Parliamentary immunity, also known as legislative immunity, is a system in which political leadership position holders such as president, vice president, minister, governor, lieutenant governor, speaker, deputy speaker, member of parliament, member of legislative assembly, member of legislative council, senator, member of congress, corporator, councilor etc.

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Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Rubaga Cathedral

Saint Mary's Cathedral Rubaga, commonly referred to as Rubaga Cathedral, is the parent cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kampala, the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in Uganda.

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Sam Odaka

Samuel Ngude Odaka (30 January 1929 – 4 August 2015) was a Ugandan diplomat, politician and member of the Uganda People's Congress political party.

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Secretary-General of the United Nations

The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.

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Simba rebellion

The Simba rebellion, also known as the Orientale revolt, was a regional uprising which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1963 and 1965 in the wider context of the Congo Crisis and the Cold War.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Supreme Court of Uganda

The Supreme Court of Uganda is the highest judicial organ in Uganda.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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U Thant

Thant (22 January 1909 – 25 November 1974), known honorifically as U Thant, was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first non-Scandinavian to hold the position.

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Uganda Army (1962–1971)

The Uganda Army (abbreviated UA), also known as the Uganda Rifles, served as the national armed forces of Uganda during the presidencies of Mutesa II and Milton Obote (known as Obote I). Mengo Crisis and Uganda Army (1962–1971) are military history of Uganda.

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Uganda People's Congress

The Uganda People's Congress (UPC; Congress ya Watu wa Uganda) is a political party in Uganda.

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Uganda v Commissioner of Prisons, Ex Parte Matovu

Uganda v. Commissioner of Prisons, Ex Parte Michael Matovu, 1 EA 514, is a decision of the High Court of Uganda in which Hans Kelsen's "General Theory on Law and State" and the Political Question Doctrine were considered in determining the legal validity of Uganda's 1966 Constitution. Mengo Crisis and Uganda v Commissioner of Prisons, Ex Parte Matovu are political history of Uganda.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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1961 Ugandan general election

General elections were held in Uganda on 23 March 1961.

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1964 Ugandan lost counties referendum

The lost counties referendum of November 1964 was a local referendum held to decide whether the "lost counties" of Buyaga and Bugangaizi in Uganda (modern day Kibaale District) should continue to be part of the Kingdom of Buganda, be transferred back to the Kingdom of Bunyoro, or be established as a separate district. Mengo Crisis and 1964 Ugandan lost counties referendum are Buganda.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengo_Crisis

Also known as 1966 Buganda Crisis, Battle of Mengo Hill, Buganda Crisis.

, Supreme Court of Uganda, The Guardian, Time (magazine), U Thant, Uganda Army (1962–1971), Uganda People's Congress, Uganda v Commissioner of Prisons, Ex Parte Matovu, United Kingdom, United States, 1961 Ugandan general election, 1964 Ugandan lost counties referendum.

Mengo Crisis, the Glossary

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See also

1960s battles

1966 in Uganda

Buganda

Idi Amin

Military history of Uganda

Political history of Uganda

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