Uganda

Ugandan children attending a primary education program for conflict-affected students. *Photo from Wikipedia October 9 is Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uganda from United Kingdom in 1962. Arab traders moved inland from the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa in the 1830s. They were followed in the 1860s by British explorers searching for the source of the Nile. British Anglican missionaries arrived in the kingdom of Buganda in 1877 (a situation which gave rise to the death of the Uganda Martyrs) and were followed by French Catholic missionaries in 1879. The British government chartered the Imperial British East Africa