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Uganda

Uganda. The country, the History and Culture. Location. Equator. Border countries: North: Sudan 435 km, East: Kenya 933 km, South: Rwanda 169 km, South: Tanzania 396 km West: DRC 765 km. Country facts. Area: Total: 236,040 sq km (91,135 sq miles) Land: 199,710 sq km

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Uganda

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  1. Uganda The country, the History and Culture

  2. Location Equator • Border countries: • North: Sudan 435 km, • East: Kenya 933 km, • South: Rwanda 169 km, • South: Tanzania 396 km • West: DRC 765 km

  3. 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

  4. Uganda – Quick facts Former British Protectorate Churchill called it the ‘Pearl of Africa’ Got independence - 9th October 1962 Republic of Uganda

  5. 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% Ethnic groups (17 major and 15 subgroups)

  6. 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

  7. 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

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

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

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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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