Colonial Confusion on the front and back of a so-called sigaret card. An collector’s object, giving the smoker an incentive to stick to a certain brand for whoever in the family was interested in collected such cards.
Here no.44 in a series of 50 – History & Development of the British Empire, Issued by Imperial tobacco Co in 1934.
“Our picture shows the explorer H.M. Stanley visiting Mutesa, the powerful king of Buganda, in 1875 and obtaining an invitation to Anglican missionaries ; the native chiefs are wearing ceremonial crowns fringed with monkey-skin. The territories included in the Ugandan Protectorate came under British influence in 1980, and for a time some of them were administered by the Imperial Britishh East Africa Company. In 1894 a Protectorate was declared. In 1896 the famous Uganda Railway was begun, and its completion six years later gave Uganda an outlet to the sea. Under peaceful conditions the Protectorate has prospered. Cotten, the principal product, is grown almost entirely by natives. The view is of government House, Entebbe.”
The king depicted is, obviously, not Muteesa I. Whoever designed the cards was a victim of being poorly informed.
