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Augustine Musoke Bakaluba
Born1914
Lubaga
Died1980
Burial placeSuuba, Bukaluba
OccupationMinister of Markets
TitleMinister (Ssentaala wa buganda)

Augustine Musoke Bakaluba (born 1914 and died 1980 ).[1] was a Muganda of the Ngeye clan, political leader who led buganda, Ugandan born 1914 around and died 1980 in born by Erasto Bakaluba (father) a member of staff of King’s College, Budo[2] and the judge of Buganda and Juliana Bakaluba(mother), he served as minister of Buganda from 1940s to 1966.He was close friends with King of Buganda Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II[3]

Biography[edit]

Augustine Musoke Bakaluba was the minister of Buganda[4] during the reign of king Fredric muteesa II before and after independence of Uganda up to around 1966 when Kabaka of Buganda Muteesa II was exited by the Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966

Augustine Musoke Bakaluba came to know the young prince Fredric muteesa II from school where they went together King’s College, Budo[5] where his father was a teacher of the to be king (prince Fredric Muteesa) and his son (Augustine Musoke Bakaluba) were they become friends to a point where he was offered a position in his government as a minster responsible for markets[4]

early life[edit]

Augustine Musoke Bakaluba was born in lubaga mengo kakeeka born by Erasto Bakaluba (father) a member of staff of King’s College, Budo[2] and the judge of Buganda and Juliana Bakaluba(mother) with many sisters and two brothers and he evntually went to king college buddo where he mate the to be king Prince Edward Frederick William David Walugembe

Minstership[edit]

He served as the minister of markets in the buganda government during the 40s to 60s before the exile of the kabaka of buganda. Where he served the kingdom of buganda well and lead to financial and economic developments to the kingdom.

Place of residency of Augustine Musoke Bakaluba

Exile of the king[edit]

In 1966, Mutesa's estrangement from Obote merged with another crisis. Obote faced a possible removal from office by factional infighting within his own party. He had the other four leading members of his party arrested and detained, and then suspended the federal constitution and declared himself President of Uganda in February 1966, deposing Muteesa. The Buganda regional Parliament passed a resolution in May 1966 declaring that de jure Buganda's incorporation into Uganda had ended with the suspension of the constitution and requesting the federal government to vacate the capital city, which was in Buganda. Obote responded with an armed attack upon the Kabaka's palace, sending Mutesa into exile in the United Kingdom via Burundi, and in 1967 a new constitution abolished all of Uganda's kingdoms, including Buganda.[6] The attack lead by obote on the palace of buganda left a bloodshed be remembered where the kabaka had to be fled out of his own palace and hide around until he would be led out of Uganda to Britain london where he evenually died of alcohol poisioning.flat, No. 28 Orchard House in Rotherhithe, in 1969[7]. which was sad news for him as a person who had the kingom and the king at heart.

But just after the news went through and reached to Obote that mutesa had managed to escape to london obote was furious and to act on that anger he collected all the allies of the king and those that were involved in the escape of the ambitious kabaka to london and lock them charging them for treason and so was Augustine Musoke Bakaluba into prizon where he was locked away and tortured.

In January 1971, Obote was overthrown by the army while on a visit to Singapore to attend a Commonwealth conference, and Amin became President. In the two years before the coup Obote's relations with the West had become strained. Some have suggested that Western Governments were at least aware of, and may have aided, the coup. Obote fled to Tanzania. The fall of Obote's regime was welcomed and celebrated by many Ugandans[8] like Augustine Musoke Bakaluba that were freed from prizon to rejoin with his family.

After that Augustine Musoke Bakaluba retired from poltics and join investing as a field till he died of cancer in 1980

References[edit]

  1. ^ Birth and death date according to the headstone inscription on his grave.
  2. ^ a b "Nagenda, William (A)". dacb.org. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  3. ^ "Mutesa II | king of Buganda". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  4. ^ a b Wavamunno, Gordon Babala Kasibante (c. 2000s). Muteesa ne Uganda: ekitabo ky' ebyafaayo bya Sir. Edward Fredrick William Walugembe Muteesa II. Kabaka wa Buganda ow'asatu mu abataano [Muteesa and Uganda: a book on the history of Sir. Edward Fredrick William Walugembe Muteesa II. King of Buganda the third of the five] (in Kinyarwanda). Wavah Books.
  5. ^ Williamkituuka.com (2011-03-01). "The Glory of Namutamba: the Namutamba Fame Was Associated With the 'balokole' Movement in East Africa". The Glory of Namutamba. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  6. ^ "Tracing the life, legacy of Sir Edward Muteesa II". 2014-10-09. Archived from the original on 2014-10-09. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  7. ^ Furley, Oliver (2004). "Mutesa II (1924–1969), king of Buganda". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63458. Retrieved 2021-01-30. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ^ Mutibwa, Phares Mukasa (1992). Uganda Since Independence: A Story of Unfulfilled Hopes. Africa World Press. ISBN 978-0-86543-357-1.