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The past is another country, where it is only possible to go as a tourist, and which we will never fully understand. We can describe what we see, but it is far more difficult to know why people acted in the way they did, or what they believed, and why they believed it. Uganda too is another country, which did not even exist before the white man went there. Even the name reflects the ideas …

…think about what might be the cultural assumptions with which we see the world, and which the future will surely find to be similarly strange and foreign. For one day we shall be the past, the inhabitants of another country for those who will look back and wonder why we acted in the way we did, what we believed, and why we believed it. The beginning of foreign intrusion- Kabaka Mutesa- King of the Baganda