Page in British magazine “The Bystander”, published February 15 1905.
Text with photograph:
“British Protectorate and Native Rulers : Uganda
The Protectorate of Uganda
Geography is acknowledged to be a weak point with so many people that we make no excuse for telling our readers that the Protectorate of Uganda lies on the north-west shore of Lake Victoria, about five hundred miles in a direct line from the nearest point on the East Coast of Africa. A population of over two millions is under the nominal rule of the dusky little boy in the illustration below. Dandi Chwa [sic] was left with a more peaceful inheritance than his father (King Mwanga) before him. Mwanga, who had little experience of the piping days of peace, fell upon evil days when he headed an insurrection in Buddu. His rising was put down, Mwanga fled to the neighbouring German territory, where he died in exile in 1903, and his little son was made King of Uganda, with a Native Council of Regency. One of the chief points of interest in Uganda is, of course, the railway, completed in 1901, connecting Victoria Nyanza with the coast at Mombasa. There is telegraphic communication between the termini, and also between Victoria Nyanza and Wadilai, on the Nile, five hundred miles distant.”
The caption below the picture repeats the misspelling of the Kabaka’s Christian name: “Dandi Chwa, the little King of Uganda”
HIPUganda collection, acquired as single page document from Ebay, November 2024
Size of object: B5
