A kingdom within a republic: Inside Uganda’s Buganda
- Kampala, Uganda – Uganda became independent from British colonial rule in 1962, but independence did not mean the end of its traditional kingdoms.
- The new republic inherited a political landscape in which old monarchies and the modern state had to find a way to exist alongside each other.
- More than six decades later, that history is still visible in Buganda, where a centuries-old monarchy exists within the modern Ugandan state.
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- Kampala, Uganda – Uganda became independent from British colonial rule in 1962, but independence did not mean the end of its traditional kingdoms.
- The new republic inherited a political landscape in which old monarchies and the modern state had to find a way to exist alongside each other.
- More than six decades later, that history is still visible in Buganda, where a centuries-old monarchy exists within the modern Ugandan state.
Sources: Al Jazeera