for the undermining of his authority, for sapping the affections and loyalty of his subjects and for ultimately occupying the whole of Buganda." Henry Morton Stanley, In Darkest Africa, 1890 "... there was, however, much good feeling and even tenderness in his character when he could be kept from bad habits and was free from evil influences." John Roscoe, Twenty Five Years in East Africa, 1921 "Mwanga was a jovial, friendly person who had many friends." Batolomewo Zimbe, Buganda ne Kabaka, 1939, p.53. "Mwanga fought to free himself and his country of the intruders for all his reign. He did not like or want them; he was impressed by their power, but not interested in their ideas. He could not recover the old way of life nor adapt himself to the new, and in his perplexed and unhappy groping in the gap between he seems to me to deserve some sympathy." Kabaka Mutesa II, Desecration of My Kingdom, 1967 "He had wanted to be master in his own house, but unfortunately for him and for the monarchy, chieftainship triumphed over royal authority in a manner that had never happened before." MSM Kiwanuka, "Kabaka Mwanga and His Political Parties", 1969 "When Mwanga was brought to the capital as a captive the administration expected the people to be happy now that the enemy of their peace and religion was going into exile. On the contrary, people wanted him pardoned." Fr. John-Mary Waliggo, The Catholic Church in Buddu, 1976 "Mwanga ... was demonstrably unequal to the task of controlling the foreigners who were subverting his kingdom under his very nose. He did not have the experience or the prestige that had enabled his father to keep foreigners in their place within his kingdom." Samwiri R. Karugire, A Political History of Uganda, 1980 "Mwanga was quite right to seek to be the master in his own kingdom just as his forefathers had been, all his excesses and fault of character notwithstanding. Some of his predecessors had been guilty of worse acts of cruelty and injustice and nothing drastic had befallen them. In other words even if all the charges levelled against Mwanga by his numerous Christian and Muslim detractors were true, he was still right to claim supreme authority in the kingdom of his forefathers." Samwiri R. Karugire, A Political History of Uganda, 1980 "... Mwanga struck them (Ganda elders) as being kinder and