Colonization+and+History

 Winston Churchill once affirmed Uganda as the "Pearl of Africa". With Uganda being known for its breath-taking national parks and vast majority of species, it is no doubt that Uganda is a tourist country. Uganda has gone through hell and back to become the country it is today. The country may be still have their rough patches, but like any other country, there is time for change and progression that can take place.

The colonization of how Uganda came about goes back involving two British explorers (Speke & Stanley). Mutesa, the king of Buganda, played a huge role in the country. He had 1 of 4 kingdoms that influenced the improvement of Uganda. By the 1880's troubles stir between the British and Germans over the territory of Zanzibar. An Anglo-German agreement of 1890 declared it to be in the British sphere of influence of Africa, in which the Imperial British East Africa Company is responsible to develop the area.

While the East Africa Company was in the works of developing Buganda, the idea of constructing a railroad from the kingdom of Buganda to the northwest shore of Lake Victoria sparked up some controversy with Germany. Germany states that the region is beyond the territorial agreement with Britain. By 1890, Karl Peters stepped in and asked the king of Buganda to sign a treaty accepting a German protectorate over his kingdom. In the meantime, Lord Salisbury (British Prime Minister) gave an offer to Berlin. The deal was to offer the island of Heligoland in return for German recognition of British protectorates in the southern province of Sudan, Uganda, and Zanzibar. In 1894, Buganda is declared a British protectorate.

Many years after Uganda being held under the British, in 1958, Uganda is finally given internal self-government. With this being said, dictators like Milton Obote and Idi Amin can gain too much power and abuse the country drastically. Although through the years of Obote and Amin's ruling, the country of Uganda is still improving to get back on their feet.

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