James Hannington
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James Hannington was an English Anglican missionary and martyr. He was the first Anglican bishop of East Africa.
James Hannington
The former St George's Church, Hurstpierpoint
Seizure of Bishop James Hannington, by William Hatherell from The Story of Africa and its Explorers (1892)
The martyrdom site
Mwanga II of Buganda
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Danieri Basammula-Ekkere Mwanga II Mukasa was the Kabaka of Buganda who ruled from 1884 to 1888 and again from 1889 to 1897. He is best known for his resistance to increasing British colonial influenc
James Hannington
…Busoga, a strategically sensitive area for the Buganda state. The sudden intrusion of German imperialism at the coast made the Kabaka of Buganda, Mwanga II, even more suspicious of Hannington's motives. An oracle (emmandwa) had said that Buganda's conqueror would come from the east. Mwanga forbade Hannington…
King Mwanga II Buganda
A stained glass depiction of Mwanga at the Munyonyo Martyrs' Shrine