ABSTRACT
The act in the establishment of the Kingdom of Toro and of its relations with Britain opened with the arrival in Uganda of Special Commissioner Sir Harry Johnston in December 1899. In practice, the Agreement might have seriously restricted Kasagama’s sovereignty if it had been fully observed, for it contained the tacit assumption that ultimate authority now lay in the hands of Britain. Kasagama took equally prompt action to ensure that his authority over the chiefs in the outlying districts of his own kingdom should not suffer as a result of the Agreement. Protectorate officials tried to persuade Kakete to return to Kitagwenda because his action threatened the orderly administrative pattern they were attempting to substitute for the dynamic political life which had formerly existed in western Uganda and which they preferred to regard as merely chaotic.
