Martin Luther Nsibirwa was the prime minister of Buganda between 1929–41 and, again, in 1945, when he was assassinated outside of St. Paul's Cathedral Namirembe. His murder sent shockwaves throughout the colonial government, [1/6]
who had long praised the sociability that governed high Ganda politics. It would remain one of the most consequential assassinations in colonial eastern Africa. The murder set in motion dozens of trials, appeals, and deportations, the documents [2/6]
of which were classified and then relocated to Hanslope Park, where they have remained since. Many of the Nsibirwa documents in the Migrated Archives have been declassified, although there was one important file that the British government had yet to release. Earlier [3/6]
this year, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I submitted an appeal to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office to secure the release of these documents. The appeal was GRANTED! [4/6]
I have just now begun working through hundreds of pages of material, which takes us into the inner work of the organization of the assassination, the politics of arrest, detention, appeal, the life of detainees, and the international [5/6]
activism that surrounded the detention of dozens of Baganda. Here, we see H. Kanyike writing the registrar of @Yale, where he had hoped to study after his sentence was appealed. @Yale_CAS [6/6] 
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