1st Period: Giant Anacondas

Country: Uganda

Geography:
 Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Tanzania border Uganda

- Uganda hosts refugees from Sudan, Rwanda, and DR of Congo, and because of that they speak Ganda, Swahili, and Arabic
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History:
1600s fisrt civilization begins

1700-1870 uganda expands and takes over new lands and their name is buganda

1890-they sign a treaty with british and become independant

1962-begins self government with benedicto kiwanaka as ruler

1995-new constitution adopted

2002-peace deal signed with ugandan national rescue front

2004-LRA rebels slaughter more than 200 displaced people in the north
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Cooking

Greens are popular; think something thick and hearty (kale/collard) rather than thin(spinach). Beans in a stew are tipical too.

The popular starches of Uganda are green plantains and cornmeal.
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Religion:
 Roman catholics, protestant, muslim,indigenous beliefs

Music is mainly kadongo kamu (single guitar). gospel music is becoming more popular in uganda

Languages have developed throughout each tribe. different tribes, such as bantu,nilotic, and sudanic speak different labguages

Leaders such as edward mutebi mutesa 2, apolo milton obote, idi amin dada, yusufu kironde lule, godfrey lukongwa binaisa were presidents of the republic of uganda

carlos rodriguez was a religious leader who promoted centers of shelter from violence. this later partnered with the church leaders to solve the political problems in uganda involving violence

mildred barya is a poet and writer from uganda. she won the pan african literary forum prize in 2008 for her book, africana fiction. she is best known for her poetry though.
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Economy:
Heritage Oil and Tullow Oil have announced major oil finds in the Lake Albert basin, with estimates that the multi-billion barrel field will prove to be the largest onshore field found in sub-saharan Africa for over twenty years.

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These are products which have historically featured as, and been the mainstay of the export menu of Uganda as primary/raw material exports. These are:
I) Coffee
II) Tea
III) Cotton
IV) Tobacco
2. NON-TRADITIONAL EXPORTS:

 These are export products other than the unprocessed Traditional Exports.

I) Agricultural productsi) Crops: Organic and non-organic

•  fruits: (fresh/dried): bananas, apple bananas, plantains (matooke), pineapples, avocados, passion fruits, mangoes, jack fruits, pawpaw, sugarcane
• vegetables: (fresh/dried): okra, dudhi, onion, mushrooms, French beans, egg plant, tomatoes, asparagus, potatoes, Asian vegetables
• spices: chillies (birds eye, scotch bonnet, cayenne, bullet) vanilla, ginger, papain
• cut flowers: roses, chrysanthemums, plant cuttings
• oil seeds: soya beans, sorghum, sunflower, groundnuts, mustard, sesame, timothy grass, sugar beet,
• cereals and pulses: beans, maize, rice, wheat
• essential oils: citronella, eucalyptus, ginger, peppermint, geranium

 ii) Animals and animal products 

• live animals: sheep, goats, chicken (day old chicks)
• honey and beeswax
• fish: chilled/frozen/dried whole fish, Tilapia. Nile perch, live ornamental fish, mukene (rastina)
• silk cocoons
• cattle by products: cow gallstones, horns, Ox gall

Food: Uganda's main food crops have been plantains, cassava, sweet potatoes, millet, sorghum, corn, beans, and groundnuts.

Artists such as David Kibuuka works internationally but has his roots and traditions in Uganda. The style and technique of his choice, the Modern Batik style, also stems from Uganda, where the classic batik style was transmitted many decades ago. From his work, you can view the influence from his Ugandan background. Everything from lifestyle to the natural atmosphere of Uganda are all part of the theme that David Kibuuka embraces.Aside from his relentless advocacy of the Lumu Kabasindi Foundation, he also donates a major percentage of sales from his art works that are available on the Zimbe Collection website. Using his art work as a means to communicate to people, David Kibuuka tries to remind people how important it is to support the community in order to maintain the culture that allows for growth of artists such as himself. This is also why he dedicates his time to art workshops for children as well. It would be tragic if the world fails to support the sprouting artistic talents.

Mildred Kiconco Barya (1976- ), born Owemigisha Patricia on 1 August 1976, is a writer and poet from Uganda. She was awarded the 2008 Pan African Literary Forum Prize for Africana Fiction, but remains best known for her poetry, particularly her first two collections, Men Love Chocolates But They Don't Say (2002), and The Price of Memory: After the Tsunami (2006).

We also met on Wednesday with Julia Spiegel from the ENOUGH Project, a program of the Center for American Progress with a mission to build a permanent constituency to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity. She’s been working directly with victims, military and officials in Northern Uganda and the Congo and has been using insight from her research to advocate for high level policy and holistic action to end the LRA’s crimes against women, children and the region in general.
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Current Issues:
ugandas issue is HIV/AIDS. It has killed approx. 1 million people. reduced life expectancy. 59% of them are women. because of deaths, left over a million children as orphans.
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Solution Letter:

U. S. Embassy

Plot 1577 Ggaba Road,
P.O. Box 7007,
Kampala, Uganda.

February 17, 2010

Dear Ambassador Jerry P. Lanier,

We are a group of students from Worthington Christian High School in Columbus, Oh, USA. In our World History class, we were put into groups and asked to pick a country in Africa and our group chose Uganda.

After studying Uganda for a few days, we have learned a lot! Uganda has helped refugees from countries such as Sudan and Rwanda, which has lead to Ugandans speaking over 3 languages. Raw materials such as coffee, tea, cotton and tobacco have been great exports in the Ugandan economy. Uganda has had many great political, religious, and military leaders and we hope there is more to come!

Another part of our project was to address and issue in Uganda and think of a possible solution to that issue. We then adopted the issue of the outbreak of HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

In order to lessen this outbreak, we think you that Ugandans to focus more on educating people about abstinence to further the prevention of HIV/AIDS from spreading. As far as a cure of HIV/AIDS, none has been found yet but we think that we need to focus on the people from the more rural areas of Uganda. These people tend to be he less educated, unemployed citizens that need medical attention. The conditions of rural Uganda are extreme and the provisions for this area are normally unavailable because of the lack of money there. We think Uganda’s government should be responsible to care for those people who are unable to care for themselves. Perhaps this means borrowing from other countries such as the US or restructuring the country’s budget to help those living in the rural areas of Uganda. Thank you so much for your time and we hope that we have given you new incites to a way of handle this HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Sincerely,

19, 20, 21 and 22