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Daily Monitor Sunday February 28 2021 Summary Despite the Mitala and Bisoko chiefs joining the Busoga Lukiiko, their petitions to the colonial government did not stop. As a result, Governor Philip Mitchel decided to visit Busoga and hold an open baraza in Bugembe. Advertisement As ZK Sentongo’s Baganda Youth Association (BYA) – founded in 1919 – was folding in 1922, the Young Basoga Association (YBA) was being created.  Though BYA was radical in nature and in 1921 it demanded the departure of the Kabaka and the creation of a republic, the Busoga version – founded by its president Mus...

How native media influenced issues in pre-independence Uganda Sunday February 21 2021 Summary Uganda was the first country in East Africa to have a native-owned newspaper. Sekanyolya was an anti-Buganda establishment newspaper mainly focusing its attack on the chiefs sitting in the Lukiiko and the general Ganda society In its January 1921 edition, Sekanyolya made a direct attack on Buganda’s ruling elite. “Some people despise others because they are chiefs. This is getting to be a common attitude in Buganda. Young men who have tried to get ahead through forming cooperatives and societies ...