Along with the plains and hills to its east, Katwe would go on to become part of the British protectorate of Uganda, where it remained until independence in 1962. The salt mine at Lake Katwe.

The Kabaka had fallen out with Sir Andrew Cohen, the then-governor of the protectorate of Uganda, leading to his exile in Britain in 1953. The governor had sought to integrate Buganda more closely ...

As independence was going to be a major turning point in our history, the Catholics in Buganda seized the opportunity to ...