• The road to Rakai 1868-88; conflict in Buganda 1888-90; the British colony entry 1890-93; competing in honour 1893-99; a native collector 1899-1901; Kabaka of Bukedi 1901-4; expansion and resistance 1904-6; transfer to Bosoga 1906-13; withdrawal to Gangama 1913-20; counting costs 1920-28.

Kakungulu's extraordinary story - the freebooting warrior, ill at ease in his adopted home, who assembled a large number of ambitious warrior followers, and then established with them his own dominion in areas where overlordship had not prevailed before, only to be stripped in slow motion of the prominence he had attained...as a biography of nineteenth-century Africa it is all but without peer.