The Archive · 1923

FATHER OF 250

Exiled Uganda King Going Home Kabarega, ex-King of Bunyoro, was 50 years ago a name to conjure with in Uganda, He is returning home there to end his days, and, on passing through Nairobi, was greeted by a; number of Baganda assembled to pay homage of him after his long banishment from his native land, A quarter of a century ago King Kabarega, of Bunyoro, with Mwanga, King of Uganda, fought against the British in the Uganda Protectorate, with the usual disastrous result. They were both captured, and in 1901 deported to the conveniently adjacent Seychelles. There Mwanga died in 1903, but the King Kabarega has survived, and, in his advanced age, hag successfully pleaded with the British authorities to be allowed to die in his own country. Having been pardoned, the ex-King has now arrived in his old kingdom of Bunyoro, there to spend

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