Africa – Uganda
Mombasa, Kenya (ca. 900 A.D.- )
Mombasa, located in southeastern Kenya on the Indian Ocean, is the second largest city in the country and the nation’s...
Mari E. Evans (1923- )
As a monumental figure in education and poetry, Mari Evans also played roles in shaping women’s history, politics, music, and...
Kampala, Uganda (1890- )
Kampala is the largest city and the capital of Uganda. In 2006 its population was approximately 1,189,000. The city was...
Diane Abbott (1953- )
Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected to the British Parliament, was born to Jamaican immigrant parents in...
Makerere University (1922– )
In 1922 the British colonial government in Uganda founded a small vocational school, which would eventually become Uganda’s lone institution...
Entebbe Raid (June 28, 1976)
The city of Entebbe, Uganda, is located on the shores of Lake Victoria about 22 miles south of Kampala, the...
Wole Soyinka (1934- )
Akinwande Ouwole “Wole” Soyinka, the first African writer to win a Nobel Prize in Literature (1986) was born in Abeokuta,...
(1967) Milton Obote, “Language and National Identification”
Milton Apollo Obote was the first Prime Minister of Uganda from the time of its independence in 1962 until 1966...
(1900) The Uganda Agreement
The Uganda Agreement of 1900 We, the undersigned, to wit, Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston, K.C.B., Her Majesty’s Special Commissioner, Commander-in-Chief...
