Ebook: Protection, patronage, or plunder?: British machinations and (B)Uganda's struggle for independence

Intro; Table of Contents; List of Acronyms; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Toponym (B)Uganda; Foreword; Introduction; Phase I; Phase II; Phase III; Phase IV; Phase V; Conclusion; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Appendix IV; Appendix V; Appendix VI; Photographs; Bibliography; List of Cases; Glossary of Non-English Terms; Index;In the scramble for Africa, Britain took a lion's share of the continent. It occupied and controlled vast territories, including the Uganda Protectorate - which it ruled for 68 years. Early administrators in the region encountered the progressive kingdom of Buganda, which they incorporated into the British Empire. Under the guise of protection, indirect rule and patronage, Britain overran, plundered and disempowered the kingdom's traditional institutions. On liquidation of the Empire, Buganda was coaxed into a problematic political order largely dictated from London. Today, 56 years after inde.