.@bwesigye This is such a fascinating, complicated question. As we both know, Nsibirwa had an involved career. He first worked in the court of A. Kaggwa, before serving as a clerk in the Lukiiko. He was later appointed Mugerere and Mukwenda. 1/5
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He was eventually appointed omuwanika and, shortly thereafter, in 1929, katikkiro. Throughout the 1930s, he navigated one controversy after another. As you have indicated, the political climate was fever pitch when 2/5
numerous elite Protestants, including Mukasa and Nsibirwa, backed the Namasole's remarriage to Simon Peter Kigozi in 1941. And there were all sorts of land disputes, with Mukasa and Nsibirwa deeply enmeshed. 3/5
The documents do show that George William Senkatuka had this concern in mind before he was executed in 1946. An additional 14 Baganda were deported without trial. The sources are concerned with the elaborate networks that the detainees utilized & the anxieties 4/5
that their networks caused for British and Lukiiko administrators. But I have considerable more to read. The most circulated explanation in Buganda at the time was Ssejjemba Ssewagaba's "Lwaki Katikkiro Martin L. Nsibirwa Yatemulwa nga 5/9/1945." 5/5
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