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On this day, 48 years ago, Sir Fredrick Edward Kabaka Mutesa the first President of Uganda collapsed and died in London.
Kabaka, once a powerful ruler of the Baganda people, but reduced in his last years to living on welfare died in a flat in the poor neighbourhood of South Bormandsey on 21st Nov, 1969.
He fled to exile in London in June 1966 after he was deposed by Apollo Milton Obote.
The news of Kabaka's death was broadcast on the early morning news over the Uganda Radio.
After the broadcast, hundreds of weeping men and women gathered outside the burial grounds of the Buganda Kings also known as Kasubi tombs.
A police guard had difficulty in controlling the mourners who wanted to enter the enclosure at Kasubi
Around Kampala, shops remained closed as a sign of respect and a football match at Kampala Stadium was cancelled.
He left behind several wives and children, three of whom were attending school in Britain.
He also left behind his unpublished memoirs, a book of songs for the lonely, which he couldn't publish for lack of funds.
A posterm carried out on his body revealed the cause of his death as , alcohol poisoning, but this was disputed.
Kabaka was a graduate of Cambridge University and an honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the Grenadier Guards. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth ll in 1962.
Kabaka, once a powerful ruler of the Baganda people, but reduced in his last years to living on welfare died in a flat in the poor neighbourhood of South Bormandsey on 21st Nov, 1969.
He fled to exile in London in June 1966 after he was deposed by Apollo Milton Obote.
The news of Kabaka's death was broadcast on the early morning news over the Uganda Radio.
After the broadcast, hundreds of weeping men and women gathered outside the burial grounds of the Buganda Kings also known as Kasubi tombs.
A police guard had difficulty in controlling the mourners who wanted to enter the enclosure at Kasubi
Around Kampala, shops remained closed as a sign of respect and a football match at Kampala Stadium was cancelled.
He left behind several wives and children, three of whom were attending school in Britain.
He also left behind his unpublished memoirs, a book of songs for the lonely, which he couldn't publish for lack of funds.
A posterm carried out on his body revealed the cause of his death as , alcohol poisoning, but this was disputed.
Kabaka was a graduate of Cambridge University and an honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the Grenadier Guards. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth ll in 1962.