This work interprets the poem “Stanley Meets Mutesa the way it has never been interpreted. The poem has enjoyed favorable comments and reviews, and remains one of the student’s most cherished poems in Africa. Students see their world through the poem. It is fortunate to be a recommended poem from high school up to the tertiary level, its unhelpful underlying background story undetected. The poem celebrates an African King Mutesa 1, the king of Buganda who receives Stanley, a European. The tale drawn is so colorful and harmless. The African reader is only aware that Stanley and his potters endure a difficult journey through the African jungle, a jungle that is not more brutal than the page they read the information from. The reader discovers that Stanley is met by a confident, tall African king, who speaks his language to the European visitor, then the “West is let in.” It thus symbolizes the friendly reception given to a worthy visitor. Examination of the historical background to the poem uncovers the identities of the two actors, who are Mutesa 1 and Henry Morton Stanley. Morton Stanley found good company in Leopold II of Belgium, who hosted the partitioning of Africa and under whose quest millions of Africans in the Congo were murdered. The poem is therefore a product of compromise. It glorifies what people of conscience should have aversion for. The people position taken in this undertaking is that this revelation should guide scholars’ appreciation of the poem. The research does not call for an entirely new position on the poem, but that works of literature should be thoroughly scrutinized. It becomes obvious that literature can act as important guide in a society. Years of research actually led this writer to this discovery. Interest groups have to play a role in the proper education of the populace, and more work needs to be done in this area. Books, journal articles and newspaper publications were relied on for this article.