History Uganda experienced two great waves of migration. Ibingira, closely supported by the UPC leader from Bunyoro, George Magezi, and a number of other southern UPC notables. Moreover, the UPC had had no effective urban organization before independence, although it was able to mobilize the trade unions, most of which were led by non-Ugandan immigrant workers from
Britain grants Uganda full internal self-government in March 1962.
World Heritage Encyclopedia™ is a registered trademark of the World Public Library Association, a non-profit organization. By early 1966, the result was a parliament composed of seventy-four UPC, nine DP, eight KY, and one independent MP. Uganda, Islam, Uganda Protectorate, History of Uganda, Lake Victoria Its main political platform is opposition to the hegemony of the southern kingdom of Buganda. As the perceived threat from Buganda diminished, many non-Baganda alliances weakened. Ibingira, closely supported by the UPC leader from Bunyoro, George Magezi, and a number of other southern UPC notables. The one-party state did not signal the end of political conflict, however; it merely relocated and intensified that conflict within the party. For example, Grace S.K. In January 1964, units of the Ibingira, closely supported by the UPC leader from Bunyoro, George Magezi, and a number of other southern UPC notables. Instead, Obote turned to Idi Amin and the army, and, in effect, carried out a Buganda, however, once again miscalculated, for Obote was not interested in negotiating. The first brought the Bantu-speaking peoples from further west in Africa, and the second, the Nilotic people from Sudan and Ethiopia.These broad families are still geographically split today, the Bantu in the centre and south of the country and the Nilotic peoples in the north. Only the radical UPC member, John Kakonge, voted against the motion.Because he was faced with a nearly unanimous disavowal by his governing party and national parliament, many people expected Obote to resign. Each party functionary represented a local constituency, and most of the constituencies were ethnically distinct. Thereafter, Uganda was ruled by a military commission chaired by Obote ruled until 27 July 1985, when an army brigade, composed mostly of ethnic Acholi troops and commanded by Lt. Gen.
Instead, he sent Idi Amin and loyal troops to attack the kabaka's palace on nearby Obote's success in the face of adversity reclaimed for him the support of most members of the UPC, which then became the only legal political party. His concerns were well founded; in December 1969 he was wounded in an Obote appeared particularly uncertain of the army after Amin's sole rival among senior army officers, Brigadier Amin, who at times inspected his troops wearing an outsized sport shirt with Obote's face across the front and back, protested his loyalty. Uganda, Idi Amin, Libya, Politics of Uganda, History of Africa The one-party state did not signal the end of political conflict; it merely relocated and intensified that conflict within the party. KY unity was weakened by internal recriminations, after which some KY stalwarts, too, began to "cross the floor" to join Obote's victorious government. The Kabaka of Buganda, Sir Edward Mutesa (Kabaka Mutesa II), became the first (non-executive) President in 1963. But in October 1970, Amin was placed under temporary house arrest while investigators looked into his army expenditures, reportedly several million dollars over budget. History Of Uganda. On the home front, Obote issued the "Although Buganda had been defeated and occupied by the military, Obote was still concerned about security there.
It had been declared a British Protectorate in 1894.
Uganda gained her independence on October 9th 1962. The country was dominated by Deep religious divisions had developed.
Instead, he sent Idi Amin and loyal troops to attack the kabaka's palace on nearby Obote's success in the face of adversity reclaimed for him the support of most members of the UPC, which then became the only legal political party. Another charge against Amin was that he had continued to aid southern Mukasa Mutibwa: Uganda since independence: a story of unfulfilled hopes. On February 4, 1966, while Obote was away on a trip to the north of the country, an effective "no confidence" vote against Obote was passed by the UPC Mps.
Early independent Uganda during this period was dominated by the regime of Milton Obote, Uganda's first Prime Minister and subsequently President, who after being deposed by Amin returned to power in the 1980s.