Kagwa, Apolo, Sir, 1864?-1927
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Name (Latin)
Kagwa, Apolo, Sir, 1864?-1927
Other forms of name
Kaggwa, Apollo, Sir, 1864?-1927
Kaggwa, Apolo, Sir, 1864?-1927
Kaggwa, Apolo, Sir, 1864-1927
Date of birth
1864
Date of death
1927
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Ekitabo ky'empisa z'Abaganda, 2010poster recto (Sir Apollo Kaggwa)
- Empisa za Baganda, 1993:(Sir Apolo Kaggwa)
- Aplolo Kaggwa; Sir Apolo Kagwa (standard Luganda orthography spelling Kaggwa) KCMG MBE; born 1864; died 1927; ethnographer. He was appointed prime minister (Katikkiro) of the Kingdom of Buganda by King Mwanga II in 1890, and served in that capacity until 1926. From 1897, Kagwa served as regent until 1914 when the infant King Daudi Chwa came of age. Apolo Kagwa was an administrative apprentice at the Royal palace of Buganda when the first Christian missionaries arrived in the 1870s. He was one of the earliest converts to the Protestant faith, and nearly became one of the Uganda Martyrs when King Mwanga II fell out with the Christians a few years later. In 1918 he was made an honorary member of the Order of the British Empire or services in raising and organising native levies and local Defence Corps in the Uganda Protectorate. His manuscripts and personal papers are in the Africana collection of the Makerere University library in Kampala. ( (Wikipedia, March 9, 2015) )
- Uganda's Katikiro in England, 1998:p.xii (b. 1865) p.xiv (d. 1926)
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Wikipedia description:
Sir Apollo Kagwa (standard Luganda orthography spelling Kaggwa) (1864–1927) was a major intellectual and political leader in Uganda when it was under British rule. He was a leader of the Protestant faction and was appointed prime minister (Katikkiro) of the Kingdom of Buganda by King Mwanga II in 1890. He served until 1926. Kagwa served as prince regent from 1897 until 1914 when the infant King Daudi Chwa came of age. He was Buganda's first and foremost ethnographer.
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