About 500 B.C. Bantu-speaking peoples migrated to the area now called Uganda. By the 14th century, three kingdoms dominated, Buganda (meaning "state of the Gandas"), Bunyoro, and Ankole. Uganda was first explored by Europeans as well as Arab traders in 1844. An Anglo-German agreement of 1890 declared it to be in the British sphere of influence in Africa, and the Imperial British East Africa Company was chartered to develop the area. The company did not prosper financially, and in 1894 a British protectorate was proclaimed. Few Europeans permanently settled in Uganda, but it attracted many Indians, who became important players in Ugandan commerce.

Uganda became independent on Oct. 9, 1962. Sir Edward Mutesa, the king of Buganda (Mutesa II), was elected the first president, and Milton Obote the first prime minister, of the newly independent country. With the help of a young army officer, Col. Idi Amin, Prime Minister Obote seized control of the government from President Mutesa four years later.Read more: Uganda: Maps, History, Geography, Government, Culture, Facts, Guide & Travel/Holidays/Cities — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108066.html#ixzz1oeYyA0vm

Written in the soil and the fossils on the floor of the western Rift Valley, where Acheulian culture is well established on the shores of Lake Albert and in the Semuliki and Kagera river valleys, is evidence of human presence in Uganda, beginning emerge around 500,000 years ago.

By around 50,000 years ago the living in the land now known Uganda had discovered fire, which enabled them to move into the more forested areas around the margins of Lake Victoria. Some 40,000 years later they had conquered most of the regions of Uganda and were living throughout the land, from the Ruwenzori Mountains to Mount Elgon; from the Lake Victoria Basin to Karamoja.

Upto 500 BC it is not easy to put a label on the communities living in Uganda. Although human speech had developing for a long time before this, it is not possible to identify specific language groups or tribes. All we know is that Uganda was inhabited by Negroid peoples living in very small communities.

Ugandans speak Bantu languages in the west, south and, to a large extent, to the east; Sudanic languages to the north-west; and Nilotic languages in the rest of the north. The Bantu languages are closely related and mutually understood.

The Bantu-speaking people of Uganda are associated with the beginning of agriculture and and iron working. Agriculture practices began around 5000 BC and were augmented by the establishment of iron-working industry between 600 BC and 300 BC and the introduction of south-eastern Asian crops - such as yarms and bananas around AD 500. By AD1000, the agricultural Bantu were well established in western and southern Uganda and were organised in small political units, of which the clan was the norm.

Also setting the grassland regions of western and southern Uganda during the late first millennium AD were the pastoralists associated with the Sanga (long-horned and big-humped) cattle. The Sanga originated in Ethiopia and had spread as far south as Zimbabwe by the seventh century AD. These pastoralists - formerly apeakers of Cushitic languages - adopted the Bantu languages as they settled among them. By the beginning of the second millennium AD these pastoralists - now the Bahima and the Bahuma of western Uganda - were solidly establishing themselves between the Kafu and Kagera rivers. It was as a result of the fusion of these pastoralists and Bantu agriculturalists that pastoral aristocracies such as Bachwezi and the Bahinda emerged in western and central Uganda.

The Sudanic and Nilotic linguistic groups were firmly established in northern Uganda - as well as southern Sudan and south-western Ethiopia - by the first millennium BC but were largely concentrated in the southern Sudan. During the first millennium AD a Sudanic people, the Madi, moved south into the largely Bantu region of Bunyoro and established one of the earliest recognizable dynasties in Bunyoro, the Batembuzi. The western Nilotic speakers from the Sudan began to move southwards into the northern Uganda in the 15th century and into eastern Uganda in the following century. www.safariafrika.com/ugandahistory.html

Basically, there is not much information given in general about Uganda. Perhaps, the past Apostles failed in the same place that we are currently failing, reaching the lost in Uganda. Constantly at war in these times of a broken world. Then and now! When the Word needed to be shared to all the ends of the world, very specific places got over looked. Paul, Peter, Barnabas, Timothy, and all the other Apostles missed an important chunk of the world. Granted to work they did was extremely great and we wouldn't be where we are now without them teaching and preaching. But then again, Uganda wouldn't be where it is if it were not for what they did. The end story is. Something was going to get missed.

Uganda has been ruled by tribes, and then dictators. Uganda has only seen war. And now America is ONCE AGAIN placing their nose in a places that it doesn't belong! We're going into ONE country to arrest ONE man who may or may not even BE IN Uganda! And when we remove him what will happen to the country? Uganda will only be taken over by someone who is just as corrupt and America will only go more into debt.

Long story short: Don't promote unless you're going to support a missionary to go over and make a Spiritual change. The war is what it is, and it is NOT our issue. There are more bad people over there than we can count. If we remove one another will arise. We need to either have a better plan, or simply try to reach the broken. God's power can change leaders. The Holy Spirit can make a difference!