ABSTRACT
IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER we attempted to outline the major protagonists within Buganda who reflected the various groupseconomic, social, and political-which were firmly rooted in the social scene. Each of them, chiefs, Bataka, Protestants, and Catholics, represented overlapping membership. There was no single group to which a Muganda gave his generous and overriding loyalty. That was reserved for the Kabaka. That the autonomous power of the Kabaka was checked by the superordinacy of the Protectorate government did not lessen the former's right to rule, although it did serve to intensify the latent conflict between the Baganda and the Protectorate government.
