Andrew Cohen (colonial governor)

Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen KCMG KCVO OBE ( born October 7, 1909 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, † June 17, 1968 in London) was the governor of the British colony of Uganda in the 1950s.

As Under Secretary for African Affairs at the Colonial Office from 1950 to 1953 he was one of the leading stakeholders in the formation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. As an anti-racist and fighter for the rights of Africans, he advocated that Rhodesia was not a related party system under a system of apartheid in South Africa.

From 1952 to 1957 he was Governor of Uganda. Among other things, he prepared the country economically prior to independence. He also made sure that black Africans came increasingly to political office as the seats in Lukiko made ​​. He dreamed for the future of the colony an East African Federation consisting of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, following the example of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland before, but this was vehemently rejected by the Africans because it was feared that in Kenya and Tanzania far more numerous white settlers could similarly as in Rhodesia form a racist minority government.

When the separatist tendencies in the Ugandan part of the state Buganda became stronger, became the king of Buganda, Kabaka Mutesa II, exiled to London by Cohen.