<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">My first twinge of foreboding had come at midnight on 9 October, 1962, as I watched Milton <span data-scayt_word="Obote" data-scaytid="116">Obote</span> raise the flag of independence. My anxiety had no precise form or cause. It was more the sense of an unfamiliar shift of emphasis, a gap between what was fitting and what was not.<br />Sir Edward <span data-scayt_word="Mutesa" data-scaytid="117">Mutesa</span> II, 1968.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">No dead man has any right to rule over the living directly through his own ghost or indirectly through heirs …Justice, love of common men, rule by representatives were the ultimate values treasured most by <span data-scayt_word="Obote" data-scaytid="118">Obote</span>. Hence Milton and Sir Edward could not get along at all.<br /><span data-scayt_word="Naphtali" data-scaytid="119">Naphtali</span> <span data-scayt_word="Akena" data-scaytid="120">Akena</span> <span data-scayt_word="Adoko" data-scaytid="121">Adoko</span>, 1969.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">I have been emphasizing to them that it would be better if they confined their activities to culture without trying to get involved in politics or administration.<br />Some have listened but others have not.<br /><span data-scayt_word="Yoweri" data-scaytid="122">Yoweri</span> <span data-scayt_word="Kaguta" data-scaytid="123">Kaguta</span> <span data-scayt_word="Museveni" data-scaytid="124">Museveni</span>, 1993.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">Introduction</span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family: lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">Few subjects in recent Ugandan history have attracted such varied, <span data-scayt_word="conflictual" data-scaytid="125">conflictual</span> and deep emotions as the question of <span data-scayt_word="Buganda" data-scaytid="127">Buganda</span>. At the beginning of the decade, save for the lone voices emanating from the nondescript Conservative Party (<span data-scayt_word="CP" data-scaytid="129">CP</span>), the rather incongruous ranting of a visiting American professor, and the strident calls of <span data-scayt_word="Makerere" data-scaytid="130">Makerere</span> University don, Apollo <span data-scayt_word="Nsibambi" data-scaytid="131">Nsibambi</span>, to respect ‘culture’ and the support federalism, 1 little else was heard about the issue. 2 Then in a flurry of activity culminating in the coronation of Prince Ronald <span data-scayt_word="Muwenda" data-scaytid="132">Muwenda</span> <span data-scayt_word="Mutebi" data-scaytid="133">Mutebi</span> as <span data-scayt_word="36th" data-scaytid="135">36th</span> <span data-scayt_word="Kabaka" data-scaytid="136">Kabaka</span> (King) in the middle of 1993, the question of <span data-scayt_word="Buganda" data-scaytid="128">Buganda</span> dramatically returned to <span data-scayt_word="centre-scene" data-scaytid="138">centre-scene</span> in Uganda. It has not left the stage since and is likely to become even more intricate and <span data-scayt_word="conflictual" data-scaytid="126">conflictual</span> before it does. Indeed, Sir Edward <span data-scayt_word="Mutesa’s" data-scaytid="139">Mutesa’s</span> concluding words in his autobiography written as <span data-scayt_word="Kabaka" data-scaytid="137">Kabaka</span> in exile were poignant: “In the end I shall return to the land of my fathers and to my people “.3 The <span data-scayt_word="Kabaka’s" data-scaytid="141">Kabaka’s</span> return— in the form of <span data-scayt_word="Mutesa’s" data-scaytid="140">Mutesa’s</span> son and designated heir, <span data-scayt_word="Mutebi" data-scaytid="134">Mutebi</span>— is having a far greater impact than either <span data-scayt_word="Mutesa" data-scaytid="142">Mutesa</span> or former President Milton <span data-scayt_word="Obote" data-scaytid="143">Obote</span> could ever have imagined. At the same time, the reincarnation of <span data-scayt_word="Obuganda" data-scaytid="144">Obuganda</span> 4 raises numerous questions about the extent to which Uganda can avoid another crisis over the issue. </span></span><br /> </p>