Many Ugandans don't know that Pope Paul VI, who visited Uganda on July 31, 1969, was the first Pope in History to visit Africa.
The Pope consecrated the altar at Namugongo and the kissed ground where Ugandan martyrs were executed.
Forgot to mention earlier that Ugandan President Milton Obote and First Lady Miria Obote, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia welcomed the Pope at 3pm.
To commemorate the visit, President Milton Obote named the new road from Namugongo to Kira Road junction Pope Paul VI Road.
Noticed that the Pope arrived in an East Africa Airways Chartered Plane. The airline was jointly run by Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and collapsed in 1977.
In 1526, the king of Kongo wrote to the king of Portugal and begged him to stop the slave trade.
The letters still exist. You can read them.
King Afonso I — Nzinga Mbemba.
He was not a victim of ignorance about Europe. He was literate in Portuguese, Catholic, and had welcomed Portuguese traders as partners. Then he watched what the trade actually did.
He writes that merchants are seizing people every day — nobles, family members, free subjects — and that his country is being emptied. He asks for teachers and doctors instead of ships. He asks, plainly, for it to stop.
Portugal's king replied with a letter pointing out how profitable Kongo's trade was and how little else it had to offer.
The trade continued for another three hundred years and helped destroy the kingdom.
An African head of state put his objection in writing in 1526, in the language of the people doing it, and was told the arithmetic did not work in his favour.
"They didn't know" has never been available as an excuse. The correspondence is in the archives.
Elizabeth Bagaya is a big person. Here in 1987, in the Oval Office she was casually chatting with President Reagan.
During the conversation, the US president tells Bagaya that he read her book.
President Museveni looks on at first before he creates his own train of conversation.
28 years ago today, one of the most anticipated concerts in Uganda that year was ruined by a heavy downpour just before the main act stepped on stage. One can only imagine what could have been.
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