What was the relationship between the various Kingdoms and the colonial government?
Under these arrangements, each kingdom state remained in the Union of Uganda upon the terms and conditions set out in its particular agreement. The powers and duties of the respective states, as well as the powers and duties of the Colonial Central Government were properly addressed in these Agreements and the two institutions worked well together. 8. How long did this arrangement last? This arrangement continued throughout the colonial times until the Protection Agreements expired on 8th October 1962, at independence. Even at Independence, both the British Government as well as the pre-Independence Ugandan leaders recognised that it was important for the people of Uganda as a whole to continue being together as one nation group known as Uganda that can meaningfully pursue national objectives and aspirations on the world stage. But at the same time, they also realised the inevitable truism: that the people who made up this nation-state of Uganda were people from different cultural and
