Abstract
HOW IMPORTANT A FACTOR IS -the English language in the lives of individual Africans? The question is too vast to be attempted in a single article. But there are in any case a variety of ways in which it could be approached. I have written before about the English language and its influence on the growth of African nationalism, the English language and its impact on African international relations, and the English language and its interaction with religion in Africa. This exercise, on the other hand, is of a different kind. It is an attempt to look at language as a factor in the careers of two people-one a king and the other a commoner. The king was Sir Edward Mutesa who was once Kabaka of Buganda. The commoner is myself. Behind both stories is the imperial tradition in whose embrace East Africa had remained for so long. Symbolising the imperial tradition are two Governors who touched the lives of Mutesa and myself in different ways. One Governor was Sir Philip Mitchell, a' towering colonial figure who ruled both Uganda and Kenya at different times and made an impact on the history of colonialist East Africa. The other Governor was Sir Andrew Cohen, the man who deported Mutesa in 1953 and caused one of the most dramatic crises colonial Uganda ever underwent. 1
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