{UAH} Munyonyo Resort. Idi Amin wanted to create a park there in memory of Kabaka Mwanga

1.henry-morton-stanley depicts here the romantic vision of an explorer in Africa. The boy is his gun bearer, and probably had been a slave who was given to Stanley by one of the inland sheikhs. Source: Smithsonian Inst. Africana Collection


2.Present-day Munyonyo Resort. Idi Amin wanted to create a park there in memory of Kabaka Mwanga.Hopefully, future leaders consider it.


3.Sir Samuel Baker and his wife Flora. Sir Samuel was the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin, now South Sudan and Northern Uganda. He is most remembered for 'discovering' Lake Albert.


4.Apollo Kaggwa (3rd from left) with British government officials.Those three chiefs on the left took advantage of the young king to amass wealth, especially land at all costs including giving away the kingdom...


5.One of Britain's greatest Prime Ministers, Winston Churchill, visited Buganda in 1907. Mr. Winston Churchill, then Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, paid a visit to Uganda. He was in Uganda about a month or more, visiting various parts of the Protectorate. Before leaving the country he opened a new boarding-school for sons of chiefs on Namirembe. The hall was packed with a representative gathering of Kabaka, Regents and leading chiefs and people. They presented a wonderful sight, clad in their robes and kanzus. He said, "I am amazed at the spectacle before me. Buganda, it seems, is like an island of light amid a sea of darkness."

Winston Churchill when Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, visited Buganda when it was being administered by Sir Hesketh Bell and writing in 1908 he says: "As one watches the surging water of the Ripon Falls and endeavours to compute the mighty energies now running to waste, but all within the reach of modern science, the problem of Buganda rises in a new form on the mind. All this water power belongs to the State; in what generally is called Uganda the arguments for the State ownership and employment of the natural resources of the country seem to present themselves in their strongest and most formidable array."

"Uganda is an African State. It must not be compared with any of those colonies where there is a white population already established, nor again with those inhabited by tribes of nomadic barbarians. It finds its counterparts among the great states of India, where Imperial authority is exercised in the name and often through the agency of a native prince and his own officers. This combination of the external brain and the African hand results in a form of government often highly acceptable to the general body of the inhabitants, who are confronted with no sudden or arbitrary changes in the long-accustomed appearance of things…. The Baganda will not be benefited either morally or materially by contact with modern money-making or modern money-makers. This is not to advocate the arbitrary exclusion of private capital and enterprise from Uganda… But the natural resources of the country should, as far as possible, be developed by the Government itself, even though that may involve the assumption of many new functions."

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