History & Anthropology

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is not just a national park in southwestern Uganda. It is a…

Uganda is one of the few countries in Africa where pre-colonial kingdoms survived both colonial…

Visitors to Uganda focused primarily on gorilla trekking in Bwindi often pass through the landscapes…

The British arrival in Uganda was not a single event but a process — commercial,…

The Uganda that gorilla trekking visitors experience today — a country with a growing safari…

On 3 June 1886, twenty-two young men were burned alive on the orders of Kabaka…

Few figures in the history of African exploration are as controversial or as consequential as…

Few figures in the history of African exploration are as controversial or as consequential as…

Few figures in the history of African exploration are as controversial or as consequential as…

Few figures in the history of African exploration are as controversial or as consequential as…

Few stories connected to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park carry the moral weight and historical complexity…

When European explorers arrived on the East African coast in the late fifteenth century, they…

Few mountain ranges on Earth carry as much literary and mythological weight as the Rwenzori.…

The image of pre-colonial Africa as a collection of isolated, unchanging societies connected to nothing…

Before the Buganda Kingdom became the dominant political force of the Great Lakes region, before…

The Uganda that visitors encounter today—stable, growing, proud of its wildlife and its traditions—was not…

In 1907 Winston Churchill, then Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, visited the Uganda Protectorate…

To understand Uganda—its languages, its kingdoms, its social structures, its conflicts—you have to go back…

The Virunga volcanoes — eight volcanic peaks straddling the borders of Uganda, Rwanda, and the…

Uganda gained independence from Britain on 9 October 1962 — a date celebrated annually as…

Uganda contains or borders five of Africa's Great Lakes — Victoria, Albert, Edward, George, and…

Before the national parks existed, the Batwa lived inside the forest. For thousands of years,…

The western branch of Africa's Great Rift Valley, which forms Uganda's western border with the…

Mountain gorilla protection is not primarily a policy achievement or a conservation strategy achievement —…