IDNO

LS.139244.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Uganda. 48.21.
Sir Apolo, Katakiro (Prime Minister) of Uganda.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Buganda

Cultural Affliation

Ganda

Named Person

Apolo Kagwa (Sir) (Katakiro, Prime Minister) (1865 - 1927)

Photographer

Elliott & Fry, London

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Named Person: "Sir Apolo Kagwa, (born c. 1869—died February 1927, Nairobi, Kenya), katikiro (prime minister) of Buganda (1890–1926) and the leading figure in the semiautonomous development of the Ganda people under British authority.
A devout Anglican, Kagwa was a leader of the Protestant faction in the civil wars of the Ganda people (1888–92). He became katikiro when King Mwanga returned to the throne in 1890, and he grew increasingly powerful during the remainder of his reign...
From the 1890s, Kagwa ruled the kingdom as an extremely competent and progressive autocrat, loyal but never subservient to the British and easily dominating the chiefs in the Lukiko (advisory parliament). Conflict developed between him and the kabaka, however, especially in the early 1920s.
Kagwa’s downfall was brought about by a clash with a British administrator in 1925 over the fundamental issue of colonial officials’ right to deal directly with Ganda chiefs rather than through the katikiro. Although Kagwa appealed directly to the secretary of state for the colonies as a loyal British ally, the administrator was upheld. In 1926 Kagwa reluctantly resigned." [Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Apolo-Kagwa, JD 19/06/2018]