When Uganda achieved independence just a year ago. a 60year period of British protection came to an end. In the 1890s and early 1900s agreements were signed between Britain and the native rulers of Uganda establishing a British protectorate over the territory. Prior to the arrival of the British two very different political systems existed in Uganda as a result of tribal immigrations over about a thousandyear period. The north and east was organized in small villages and clean communities. whereas in the south and west strongly centralized kingdoms. each with a hereditary ruler and native parliament. had developed. Several of these kingdoms have persisted to the present. with the result that the kingdoms of Buganda.
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