Uganda

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Uganda
The country, the History and Culture
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Location
Equator
Border countries North Sudan 435 km, East
Kenya 933 km, South Rwanda 169 km, South
Tanzania 396 km West DRC 765 km
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Country facts

• Area
• Total 236,040 sq km (91,135 sq miles)
• Land 199,710 sq km
• Water 36,330 sq km
• Slightly smaller than Oregon (97,073sq miles)
• Bigger than ND (70,702 sq miles)
• Population 30 million

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Uganda Quick facts

• Former British Protectorate
• Churchill called it the Pearl of Africa
• Got independence - 9th October 1962
• Republic of Uganda

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Ethnic groups (17 major and 15 subgroups)

• Baganda 17,
• Ankole 8,
• Basoga 8,
• Iteso 8,
• Bakiga 7,
• Langi 6,
• Rwanda 6,
• Bagisu 5,
• Acholi 4,

• Lugbara 4,
• Batoro 3,
• Bunyoro 3,
• Alur 2,
• Bagwere 2,
• Bakonjo 2,
• Jopodhola 2,
• Karamojong 2,
• Rundi 2,
• non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1, other 8

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Pre-colonial setup

• Was a British creation
• With over thirty ethnic groups
• Broadly speaking there are four groups namely
• The bantu,
• Hamites
• Nilotics,
• Nilo-hamites and
• The sudanic tribes

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Social-economic organization

• All societies had similar socio-economic
  institutions
• Worshipped ancestors and cults
• Extended family was a social unit
• Economic activities were mainly pastoralism and
  agriculture supplemented by hunting, fishing,
  iron-smelting and handicraft

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Political organization

• Monarchies such as Buganda, Bunyoro, Nkore, and
  Toro
• Inter-ethnic relationship mainly through trade
• Peoples languages and culture
• Diverse cultures and languages

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Religion

• Roman Catholic 33,
• Protestant 33,
• Muslim 16,
• Indigenous beliefs 18
• Traditional African religions
• Anchestral worship

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History

• Cushitic speakers settled in the area around 1000
  BC.
• In the first millennium AD, Bantu-speaking
  peoples moved into the highland areas of East
  Africa, cultivated the banana as a food crop.
• After AD 1000, two other migrations
  -Nilotic-speaking Sudanic people and Luo
  speakers.
• In the south, the kingdom of Bunyoro was the most
  powerful and extensive, but in the 18th century
  the neighboring kingdom of Buganda began to
  challenge its supremacy.
• The two states engaged in a critical power
  struggle when the British explorers John Hanning
  Speke and J. A. Grant reached Buganda in 1862.

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History

• The Anglo-German agreement of 1890 officially
  outlined imperial spheres of influence in East
  Africa. Uganda and Kenya were considered British
  spheres and Tanganyika a German sphere.
• The first Christian missionaries, members of the
  CMS of Great Britain, came to Buganda in 1877.
• In 1888, the Imperial British East African Co.
  was granted a charter and authorized to
  administer the British sphere of East Africa.

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History

• Uganda should obtain independence on 9 October
  1962.
• On 9 October 1963, Sir Edward Mutesa (Kabaka
  Mutesa II of Buganda) became Uganda's first
  president.
• In February 1966, the 1962 constitution was
  suspended and the Prime Minister, Milton Obote,
  assumed all powers of government
• On 25 January 1971, while Obote was out of the
  country, Maj Gen Idi Amin led a successful
  military coup and Uganda was proclaimed the
  second republic on 17 March 1971.

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History

• Under Amin, Uganda suffered a reign of terror
  that had claimed 50,000 to 300,000 lives by 1977
  (AI).
• In reponse Tanzanian forces, supported by
  anti-Amin rebels, struck back and took over
  Kampala on 11 April 1979
• Obote's Uganda People's Congress (UPC) won a
  clear majority (contested), and he was sworn in
  as president on 15 December 1980.
• Obote's second term in office was marked by
  continued fighting between the army and guerrilla
  factions. As many as 100,000 people may have died
  as a result of massacres, starvation, hindrance
  of relief operations.

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History

• On 27 July 1985, Obote was overthrown in a
  military coup and Lt. Gen. Tito Okello, commander
  of the armed forces, was installed as president.
• Lt Gen Tito Okello was overthrown by NRA led by
  Yoweri Museveni on 26 January 1986.
• Most notably the Holy Spirit rebels of Alice
  Lakwena in 1987.
• Lords Resistance rebels -1987- to date

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