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  • 26 - Who Was the Last King of Scotland?

  • Johan Fourie, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Book:
    Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
    Published online:
    30 August 2022
    Print publication:
    04 August 2022, pp 153-160

  • Summary

    When Milton Obote was inaugurated as Uganda’s first prime minister in 1962, the future of the country that Winston Churchill had called ‘the Pearl of Africa’ looked brighter than ever. Independence from Britain had come with a carefully constructed federal constitution that gave some internal autonomy to the ancient kingdom of Buganda and its king, while Obote and his government could still maintain effective control of a country with diverse ethnic and interest groups.

    Independence brought democratic institutions at a time when the economy was booming. The ‘cash crop revolution’ involving cotton and coffee that started with the construction of the railway from Uganda to the Kenyan port at Mombasa in 1901 had spread rapidly during the following half-century. In the first decade of independence, coffee exports more than doubled.