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Colonial rule, however, affected local economic systems dramatically, in part because the first concern of the British was financial. Quelling the 1897 sudanese mutiny (see Uganda before 1900 ) under the leadership of protectorate commissioner George Wilson CB had been costly—units of the British Indian Army had been transported to Uganda at ...
On Wednesday 4 February 1959, a Constitutional Committee on self-government for Uganda was set up by the British colonial Governor Sir Frederick Crawford KCMG OBE. [3] The committee was chaired by John Vernon Wild OBE and has since been known as the Wild Committee. The committee was composed of 11 Africans, three Europeans (inclusive of the ...
A history of African motherhood: The case of Uganda, 700-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Thompson, G. Governing Uganda: British Colonial Rule and Its Legacy (Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2003). Twaddle, Michael. "The Bakungu chiefs of Buganda under British colonial rule, 1900–1930." Journal of African History 10#2 (1969): 309–322.
It was notable that the British colonial officials entered Uganda through a centralized kingdom rather than through a succession of disconnected societies, as they had elsewhere in eastern Africa. [3] Their arrival in Uganda was complicated by the presence of Catholic and Protestant missionaries and the ensuing Buganda succession war of 1888 ...
The Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEAC) was a commercial association founded to develop African trade in the areas controlled by the British Empire. The company was incorporated in London on 18 April 1888 and granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria on 6 September 1888.
The Official Gazette of the East Africa and Uganda Protectorates. 9 (192). Kenya: 442. 1 November 1907. Uganda Protectorate Blue Book for the year ended 31st March, 1914. Government of Uganda Protectorate, Entebbe. 31 March 1914. p. 16. "Further Memories of Uganda by Sir Albert Cook". The Uganda Journal. 2 (2): 98. 1934.
The Uganda Scheme was a proposal by British colonial secretary Joseph Chamberlain to create a Jewish homeland in a portion of British East Africa. It was presented at the Sixth World Zionist Congress in Basel in 1903 by Theodor Herzl , the founder of the modern Zionist movement.
Tanganyika was a colonial territory in East Africa which was administered by the United Kingdom in various guises from 1916 until 1961. It was initially administered under a military occupation regime. From 20 July 1922, it was formalised into a League of Nations mandate under British rule.