1862, the “British explorer John Hanning Speke, the first European to visit Buganda while searching for the source of the Nile.” This is an event, if I could, I would erase from history.
By the way, the language “first European” as it applies to Speke and his misadventures in Uganda, is of recent.
Growing up, in school, we were taught the falsehood that Speke was the first man to discover the source of the Nile and Lake Victoria.
Lake Nnalubaale, which our ancestors lived around and navigated for millennia before Speke’s arrival. And obviously, it is our ancestors who took Speke to the shores of Lake Nnalubaale.
On arrival, Speke re-named it Lake Victoria, in honor of his queen, Queen Victoria, the reigning British monarch at the time. The audacity!
That it continues to be named Lake Victoria is mind boggling. With all talk of independence and Pan-Africanism, why hasn’t the name changed back from Lake Victoria to Enyanja Nnalubaale? Why?
When I think of it, and learning Speke was a British Army Officer, I cannot help but wonder if he was actually the forward team that set it up for the colonization of Uganda by the British.
Imagine if Uganda had not be colonized. Imagine for decades it had not been claimed by the British as a protectorate. How would have our ancestors evolved our ancient African civilizations, such as of Buganda Kingdom, to modern day?
Instead, plenty of artifacts and evidence of our civilization are hidden in museums of those who colonized our nations. Assigning objects and symbols of our civilization false histories told from the colonizers’ lens.
I am persuaded that the current West Minster System of government our nation state has adapted, moreover, would not have taken root and prevailed if not for colonization.
Not in its pure form and not in its current bastardized form meting significant suffering to the the people, would the Westminster System have survived, if not for colonization.
Our history is clear. What followed Speke’s first visit to Buganda Kingdom? Colonization irreparably interrupted, polluted and diluted our African civilizations.
Sadly, it is because descendants of colonizers have not fully accepted to decolonize their minds of the false narratives they were nurtured with, that unfortunate incidents hinged on imperialistic racism happen.
The latest, for example, the tragedy that is the Jason Arday case.
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