10 Facts About Uganda Protectorate

Protectorate of Uganda was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1894 to 1962.

In 1894 the Uganda Protectorate was established, and the territory was extended beyond the borders of Buganda to an area that roughly corresponds to that of present-day Uganda.

Shortly after, Sir Gerald Portal, a representative of the British government on the ground in Uganda Protectorate, proposed a plan of double chieftainships - whereby every chieftainship would have one Protestant and one Catholic chief.

On 18 June 1894, the British government declared that Uganda would come under British protection as a Protectorate.

The status of Protectorate had significantly different consequences for Uganda than had the region been made a colony like neighbouring Kenya, insofar as Uganda retained a degree of self-government that would have otherwise been limited under a full colonial administration.

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Johnston approached the chiefs in Uganda Protectorate with offers of jobs in the colonial administration in return for their collaboration.

On 1 January 1902 the somewhat irregular armed force in Uganda Protectorate was reformed and re-titled the 4th Battalion the King's African Rifles.

The Protectorate developed an emergency response for the intelligence collection on German activities and performing political-military liaison with allies in East Africa; according to UK National Archive records this organisation was about 20 strong and included European officers and African soldiers.

Uganda Protectorate's forced departure made the Kabaka an instant martyr in the eyes of the Baganda, whose latent separatism and anticolonial sentiments set off a storm of protest.

The Kabaka was promised the largely ceremonial position of Head of state of Uganda Protectorate, which was of great symbolic importance to the Baganda.