“Museveni’s government is a government of thieves. We sometimes just don’t know what they’ve stolen, but they wake up every day to scheme about what to steal. That’s how Museveni and his men have survived in power for this long. …”.
Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda
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“Museveni’s government is a government of thieves. We sometimes just don’t know what they’ve stolen, but they wake up every day to scheme about what to steal. That’s how Museveni and his men have survived in power for this long. …”.
Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda
😂
We seemed not to have a problem with them when they were in Luwero, risking their lives to save Uganda.
But all of a sudden, we don't want their sons and grandkids serving our country again?🤔🤔 and why, because of our beloved borders.
The same borders that were drawn in Germany by a group of old white guys who just wanted to steal minerals. smh
Maybe one day, we shall all realise that "Twese turi Bavandimwe."
@TonyNatif can you dig more and deeper because we are loosing great people due to Kawala Kawala let the police dig deep as how it the Anita's cartel via mp kabanda
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The Foreign Office Handbook.
Part 3.
Portugal's Last Stand in Africa:
Exploration, Claims, and Defeat in the Scramble - 1920
Portugal once dominated Africa's coasts.
By the 19th century, it was a fading power scrambling to prove it still belonged.
The handbook records its desperate expeditions, its treaty chess, and its ultimate humiliation, an 1890 British ultimatum that crushed the dream of a transcontinental empire.
For the old pioneer, the Scramble was not a conquest, but a retreat.
The handbook notes that Portugal, though eclipsed by Holland, Britain, and France, stubbornly clung to its coastal possessions while allowing them to stagnate.
Portuguese Guinea was hemmed in by French expansion, formalised by the Franco‑Portuguese Convention of 1886.
Alarmed by the explorations of Livingstone, Cameron, and Stanley, Portugal urgently dispatched its own explorers to substantiate claims to the interiors of Angola and Mozambique.
The old colonial power was now scrambling to prove it still belonged.
Serpa Pinto's 1877 march from Loanda to the Zambezi and across the Kalahari, alongside Capello and Ivens' exploration of northern Angola, were missions designed to assert control over the vast interior between the two colonies, long claimed but never secured.
A flurry of treaties followed:
British recognition of Portuguese rights at the Congo mouth in 1884, quickly modified by the Congo Free State's creation;
The Franco‑Portuguese Convention and agreements with the Congo State that retained the Cabinda enclave;
The 1886 German‑Portuguese Declaration demarcating Angola's southern border.
On paper, Portugal was weaving a web of agreements.
But its ambition collided with Britain in Southeast Africa.
After defending Delagoa Bay via French arbitration (1875), Portugal pushed toward Lake Nyasa and the Shire Highlands.
In 1889, Serpa Pinto's expedition suddenly deflected northward into territory Britain considered its own.
British officials responded by declaring a protectorate.
The clash was a direct challenge to British expansion, and Britain answered with force.
In 1890, Britain delivered an ultimatum: withdraw or face war. Lisbon, humiliated and powerless, complied.
The Anglo‑Portuguese Treaty of 1891 formalised Portugal's containment.
Portugal retained coastal Mozambique but lost the interior corridor linking Angola and Mozambique.
Britain secured Matabeleland, Mashonaland, and Nyasaland.
The dream of the "Pink Map", a continuous Portuguese band from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, was dead.
Further arbitration in 1905 set Angola's eastern limit at the 24th meridian, permanently confining Portugal to separate coastal strips.
The handbook presents these events as a rational sequence of treaties and adjustments.
What it can not convey is the lesson:
In the age of empire, historical claims meant nothing against industrial might and a gunboat at the river mouth.
Portugal's last stand was lost at conference tables.
The Scramble had a logic of its own:
The weak were pushed aside, their centuries‑old presence reduced to footnotes in a British reference book.
The pioneers had become relics, and the map was redrawn without their consent, or Africa's.
The Foreign Office Handbook.
Part 3 of 9.
What does it mean to watch an empire fade in the mirror of a rival's handbook?
Portugal's African territories survived, but its dream of continental dominion was buried by treaties it could not afford to break.
The Scramble's winners were not those who arrived first, but those who arrived last with the biggest guns.
The series continues with the instruments of British annexation.
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