May
24
The Mysterious death of King Freddie of Buganda
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The mysterious death of Edward Mutesa II in 1969, affectionately labelled King Freddie by western media, passed relatively unnoticed. Other than a few skeptic commentators in his native Uganda, nobody was suspicious that the King of Buganda committed suicide having drunk seven bottles of vodka - in the space of several hours! But to understand his death we first need to consider his complex political and historical background.
Mutesa was king of Buganda, a major province of Uganda with its More