"YOU HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED UGANDA"

by Alan Forward

Alan Forward's book contributes to the balanced historical assessment now being made of Great Britain's involvement in its former Empire.

1862 Captain John Speke discovers the source of the Nile at the Owen Falls and meets Kabaka Mutesa I in the Kingdom of Buganda.

1875 Henry Stanley writes his famous letter to The Daily Telegraph.

1890 Frederick Lugard of the Imperial British East Africa Company signs agreement with Kabaka Mwanga.

1894 Public opinion forces the British Government to declare a British Protectorate over Uganda.

1962 Uganda is granted independence after only seven months of self-government as the Macmillan Government responds to the "wind of change"