MAPS OF HISTORY · HISTORY OF · Uganda
ONE LAND · 3 ATLASES
Uganda, on the map of history
What was Uganda before it was Uganda? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History collection — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Uganda · The Great War, 1914–1918
| NOV 1914 | Entente-aligned & imperial territories — the opening position |
Uganda · The Cold War, 1945–1991
| AUG 1945 | NATO & core Western allies — the opening position |
| OCT 1962 | Non-aligned & neutral |
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Uganda · The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
Uganda became independent from Britain in 1962, a patchwork of kingdoms and peoples the colonial border had bundled together. Its post-independence descent — Obote, then Idi Amin’s murderous 1971–79 dictatorship, ended only by a Tanzanian invasion — made it an emblem of the coup era at its worst. The artificial-state problem, and the strongman it so often produced.
| 1945 | British-ruled — the opening position |
| JUL 1962 | Independent Africa |
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