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‖ lukiko|luːˈkiːkəʊ| Also lukiiko. [Luganda, = audience-hall, council, levee.] A levee; the council or parliament of the Buganda people of Uganda.
1889R. P. Ashe Two Kings of Uganda vi. 53 He, like us, has come to ‘kika’, that is to present himself at Mutesa's grand ‘lukiko’, or levee. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 539/1 The native parliament or ‘Lukiko’ was reorganized and its powers were defined. [1904G. R. Blackledge Luganda-Eng. Vocab. 51/1 Lukiko, audience room, council, levee.] 1955Ann. Reg. 1954 122 It was suggested..that..the Lukiko should be given the opportunity to decide whether to recall the exiled Kabaka or to elect a new Kabaka, as a constitutional monarch. 1955Times 3 Jan. 7/3 The compromise was not made public until after the Great Lukiko had debated the Namirembe reforms. 1969Times 15 Sept. (Uganda Suppl.) p. ii/3 The Buganda Lukiko (Parliament) is not the only regional body to have suffered an eclipse. 1971Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 11/4 The Lukiiko..demanded that Obote's government should quit the soil of Buganda. |