Derda Promotions is deeply saddened to announce the passing of our esteemed artist, Godwin Kabaka Opara, an icon who pioneered and revolutionized Highlife music, on March 21, 2024. This was made ...

She represented Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, who succeeded his father Mutesa II. Buganda Kingdom prime minister (Katikkiro) Charles Peter Mayiga and Prince David Wasajja — the youngest son ...

In 1875, Stanley wrote an open letter in the name of the Kabaka Mutesa, inviting missionaries to the Kingdom of Buganda. Two missionary groups, the British Church Mission Society and the French ...

It was in the midst of this tension that, in 1884, the young, inexperienced Mwanga succeeded his father Mutesa as the new Kabaka. Whereas Kabaka Mutesa was able to balance and contain the ...

On November 19, 1948, Kabaka Mutesa and Lady Damali Nakawombe Kisosonkole were wed in Namirembe Cathedral. As Mutesa’s remains lay in the cathedral, there was a sea of human traffic.

"Again, his birth on November 28, 1939, happened just two days after the coronation of Kabaka Mutesa 11 of Uganda’s Buganda kingdom,” says music expert and Permanent Presidential Music ...

Whereas it was Edward Mutesa, though a coalition with the Kabaka Yeka (KY) political party, who literally made Milton Obote Uganda's first Prime Minister at independence on October 9, 1962, it was ...

Mutesa was a shrewd operator. Ashe, the missionary, recounts in his book a story of an Arab trader who had some beads that caught the Kabaka’s eye. He wanted more and asked the Arab how the ...

Prince David Ssimbwa, the younger brother of Sir Edward Mutesa, was aware of a plot by Obote's government to kill the exiled Kabaka. Concerned about his safety, the prince wrote to the Kabaka ...

In his own words, Kabaka Mutesa recalls the battle to defend his throne. COUNTDOWN February 22, 1966 -Dr. Obote suspends the 1962 constitution. -Five cabinet ministers arrested.