Uganda: Buganda's Prowess is As Old As Mankind

3 September 2007
opinion

Kampala — Since independence and more recently since "seccession talk", there's been a lot of talk about Buganda being unfairly buoyed by the British over other tribes of Uganda, hence her seemingly more advantaged central positioning, which Baganda (mis) interprete to imply they are better than other tribes.

This article is written to spice the debate with some historical perspective, which, I hope historians will take up. The Mzungu (whiteman), in order to enhance his own colonial programme, ordered a ceasefire of the traditional raids and counter-raids that enabled neighbouring tribes in the region that came to be known as Uganda, to grab territory, women and other forms of wealth from each other, and many times lose them in the counter-raids. That was the regional foreign policy.

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