Apolo Kagwa

Apolo Kagwa was born in the 1860s and entered the service of the Buganda palace at a young age. A convert to Protestantism, he led the Protestant party during the kingdom's religious wars, then was katikkiro, that is, prime minister, from 1890 to 1926, and regent during the minority of King Daudi Chwa. He negotiated the 1900 agreement with the British, was knighted, and founded Budo College. The first ethnographer of his people, he wrote their history and customs. Forced to resign in 1926, he died in 1927.

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• ChronicleThe Kings of BugandaBasekabaka be BugandaApolo Kagwa · 1901Literature