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Kabaka of Buganda

Daudi Cwa IIKCMG KBE was the 34th Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda from 1897 until 1939.

List of buganda kings

Life

He was born on 8 August 1896, at Mengo Palace. He was the fifth son of Kabaka Danieri Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II Mukasa, Kabaka of Buganda, between 1884 and 1888 and between 1889 and 1897. His mother was Abakyala Evalini Kulabako, of the Ngabi Clan, the fourth of his father's sixteen wives.

He ascended to the throne in August 1897 following the deposition of his father by British Forces. At the time of his coronation, he was only one year old.

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He maintained his capital at Mengo Hill. He was educated at Kings College Budo,^[1] which was founded in 1906 alongside Daudi, by the British Commissioner and commander in chief of the then Uganda protectorate, George Wilson.

On 8 August 1914, he received an honorary commission as a lieutenant in the British Army,^[2] and was appointed an honorary captain on 22 Septembe