By 1890, Buganda's political & religious revolution was being covered in the southern African press. The Lovedale Institution Press circulated Alexander Mackay's partisan political commentary in the Christian Express. In his closing sentences, 1/4 
Mackay accentuated Kabaka Mwanga's request for missionaries, which was likely designed to echo Kabaka Muteesa I's earlier letters in the Daily Telegraph. 2/4
Much earlier, though, I notice that the Sesotho press used the phrase, 'ka baka'. Would anyone who reads/speaks Sesotho mind offering a brief translation of the phrase? It is taken from Leselinyana la Lesutho, first produced in 1864. I believe it only means, 'because.' 3/4
In Luganda, it is the title of Buganda's monarch, from, ['Ka' 'Baka'] (to catch or grab) [the person who is best at catching things]. 4/4
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