Andrew Cohen was Uganda ‘s governor (colonial administrator) from 1952 to 1957. – (Mindset Media News!)
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Buganda Kingdom’s Kabaka (king) Mutesa II and Sir Andrew Cohen, take a walk at State House-Entebbe in 1953.
Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen KCMG KCVO OBE (7 October 1909 – 17 June 1968) was Governor of Uganda from 1952 to 1957.
Cohen was from a distinguished Anglo-Jewish family.
He was a descendant of Levy Barent Cohen. He was educated at Malvern College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a Cambridge Apostle.
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Governor of Uganda:
In 1952 he was appointed Governor of Uganda by Britain, with the task of preparing that country for independence.
He reorganised the Legislative Council (LEGCO) to include African representatives elected from districts throughout Uganda, thus creating the basis for a representative parliament.
He also introduced economic initiatives, including the establishment of the Uganda Development Corporation.
He also introduced and influenced the Buganda queen’s attitude that demand for its warrant of Matrilineal.
Matrilineal is a word that refers to someone’s lineage, or the line of people that came before that person; so the adjective matrilineal describes anything related to kinship through a female line.
Agents were chosen in Buganda region:
In Buganda, agents were chosen by the administration of governor Andrew Cohen, with the aim of spreading the political agenda of Britian,
which was designed to enable England to bring together the 13 nations that will make up the semateka ya Uganda, selecting Bagands agents who will play the role of blockers, tax collectors, and insiminators of the message of Britain.
Agents who did the work of convicing the nations (kingdoms, cultures, clans) that will make up Uganda, so that they may go along with the plan which was conjured to forge the political state of Uganda...
As the Baganda agents were faithful serving the British’s agenda, that act generated mistrust, and resentment from the mistreated neighbours of Buganda…
And on the other side of the coin;
The British government was training victims (who will become presidents, parliament leaders of Uganda), using the mistakes, and the negative experiences that the victims were confronting,
coming from the examples of Baganda agents as the motivational stimulator to cultivate the emotional reaction of revenge, competition, benign envy etc….
Divide and rule:
Seeds of discord, mistrust, envy, revenge, pointing of finger, jealousy became the foundation of the political groups which formulated the arguments of discontentment against Buganda…
The parliament of Uganda, and the state House (where the president of Uganda sits), the capital city of Uganda, the ministries that makes up the government of Uganda are all located in Buganda,
But yet the volunteers (people from other nations, cultures, countries, and even those who are supposed to be Baganda) who work, reside, do business in the region of Buganda,
representative of Uganda being the same who are haters, non wellwishers, speakers of hate speech, blockers, plunderors, people that practice corruption in the region of Buganda.
The governor of Uganda was also used by the colonial master of Buganda to impliment the democratic status for Uganda, which was supposed to plaform the different interests coming from the different political groupings (many complaining, debating and competing voices, or a parliament) that do not have cultural rights over the land of Buganda), arguing for the position of leadership in the land of Buganda.
In 1953 the Lukiiko (Parliament) of Buganda sought independence from Uganda.
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Edward Mutesa II, the Kabaka (king) of Buganda demanded that Buganda be separated from the rest of the protectorate and transferred to Foreign Office jurisdiction.
On 30 November Cohen deposed the Kabaka and ordered his exile to London. His forced departure made the Kabaka an instant martyr in the eyes of the Baganda, whose latent separatism and anticolonial sentiments set off a storm of protest.
Cohen’s action had backfired, and he could find no one among the Baganda prepared or able to mobilise support for his schemes.
After two frustrating years of unrelenting Ganda hostility and obstruction, Cohen was forced to reinstate “Kabaka Freddie”.
The Kabaka returned to Kampala on 17 October 1955.
Abu Mayanja was among those who escorted Sir Edward Mutesa from his London exile in 1955.
The negotiations leading to the Kabaka’s return, although appearing to satisfy the British, were a resounding victory for the Baganda.
Cohen secured the Kabaka’s agreement not to oppose independence within the larger Uganda framework.
Not only was the Kabaka reinstated in return, but for the first time since 1889, the monarch was given the power to appoint and dismiss his chiefs (Buganda government officials) instead of acting as a mere figurehead while they conducted the affairs of government.
The Kabaka’s new power was cloaked in the misleading claim that he would be only a “constitutional monarch,” while in fact he was a leading player in deciding how Uganda would be governed, and would become the country’s first president in 1962.
From 1957 Cohen was the UK representative to the United Nations Trusteeship Council.
In 1959 he was a member of the Special Mission to Samoa to negotiate its independence from New Zealand.
He was involved in the transfer of the Trust Territory of Southern Cameroons to the French-controlled state of the Cameroun Republic on 1 October 1961.
Cohen had argued against offering independence to the territory, and pro-independence Southern Cameroonians blamed him for the fact that the UN did not allow that question to be put.
Cohen was Permanent Secretary of the Minister of Overseas Development from 1964 until his death from a heart attack in 1968.
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