Volume 35, Number 3 · March 3, 1988
Betrayal
By Neal Ascherson
Anthills of the Savannah
by Chinua Achebe
Anchor Press/Doubleday, 216 pp., $16.95
I am old enough to remember the Great Lukiiko. This was the traditional parliament, really the assembly of appointed chiefs, in the Kingdom of Buganda, ruled by the Kabaka. The Lukiiko survived the decades of British colonial rule, but it was not many years after independence that the army, under commanders from the alien North, stormed across the hill of Mmengo and put an end to the Kabaka's kingdom and its institutions.
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