Uganda Untold

Uganda Untold

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Photographs and portraits

Map destination photographs, all with cleared provenance: Bigo's trench by Aishablue (CC0); Kasubi's Muzibu Azaala Mpanga (see homepage plates); Kibiro Salt Gardens by Nuwahwera Phionah (CC BY-SA 4.0); the Nakayima tree on Mubende hill by Eustusm10 (CC BY-SA 4.0); papyrus swamp at Wadelai from Heller's 1913 White Rhinoceros (public domain); Fort Patiko's walls by Keitsist (CC BY-SA 3.0); Fort Portal in 1936 by the Matson Photo Service via the Library of Congress (public domain); and the Source of the Nile at Jinja by Christopher Liberty (CC BY-SA 4.0). The Mwanga II portrait is a public-domain 19th-century photograph from the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft collection. His gallery photo of the Munyonyo stained glass is by Wulman83, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The Daudi Chwa portrait is John Roscoe's 1911 photograph from The Baganda (public domain); the Apollo Kagwa portrait is Sir Gerald Portal's 1893 photograph (public domain); their joint 1902 photograph with Ham Mukasa is from the Royal Commonwealth Society (public domain); and the 1890s chiefs photograph showing Mugwanya is a public-domain file photo. The homepage plates reuse cleared images: the Kingdoms plate shows Muzibu Azaala Mpanga by Andrew Moore (CC BY-SA 2.0) and the Independence plate shows the Kampala monument by Lynettenakaye (CC BY-SA 4.0). The Salt and trade plate shows Murchison (Kabalega) Falls on the Victoria Nile by Jozef020 (CC BY-SA 4.0). The 1899 Mumias detention photograph of Mwanga and Kabalega is an anonymous public-domain image retrieved via a community post; its deeper archival provenance is unconfirmed. The Mutesa I portrait is Godefroy Durand's 1864 engraving from Le Tour du monde (public domain) — the same illustration is mislabelled as Kintu on Alchetron, where it carries no usable provenance. The Kintu portrait is a painting from the 31 royal portraits unveiled by the Kingdom of Buganda's Heritage & Tourism Board in August 2022. The Kabalega portrait is cropped from the 1899 Mumias detention photograph (public domain). The Mutesa II portrait is from the 1964 Uganda Independence Anniversary magazine (public domain via HIP Uganda). The Kasagama portrait is from G. F. Scott Elliot's 1890s expedition account A naturalist in Mid-Africa (public domain via Field Museum / Flickr Commons). The Rukidi III portrait is Joop van Bilsen's 1959 photograph from the Nationaal Archief Den Haag (CC BY-SA 3.0 nl). The Semei Kakungulu portrait is cropped from a photograph of the framed portrait drawing at the Semei Kakungulu Museum on Gangama hill (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0). The Stanislaus Mugwanya portrait is cropped to a solo bust from the public-domain 1890s chiefs photograph. The Rwot Awich portrait is R. M. Bere's 1944 photograph published in The Uganda Journal in 1946 (Plate II, public domain). The Ndahura portrait is a historical pencil drawing depicting Omukama Ndahura of Bunyoro-Kitara in royal robes with ceremonial spear and leopard skin. The Sir William Nadiope portrait is a historical photograph of the Kyabazinga of Busoga and first Vice-President of Uganda. The Wamara portrait is a cultural illustration depicting Omukama Wamara of Bunyoro-Kitara in royal barkcloth robes, cowrie-shell headdress, and ceremonial staff. The Ignatius Kangave Musaazi portrait is an archival historical photograph of the Father of Ugandan Nationalism. The Kabaka Suuna II portrait is from the official 31 royal portraits commissioned by the Buganda Kingdom Heritage & Tourism Board. The portraits for Prince Isimbwa, Prince Mugenyi, Omugabe Ruhinda rwa Ntare, Rwoth Jalusiga of the Alur, and Katikkiro Simeon Kintu are authentic cultural heritage illustrations and historical reconstructions preserved for the archive. All supplied photographs and portraits carry verified provenance entries.

Fonts

Bodoni Moda and DM Sans are distributed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The local files were downloaded from Google Fonts on 9 October 2026.

Administrative map

The journey uses the committed 2020 Uganda district dataset from UBOS / OCHA via the Humanitarian Data Exchange, under CC BY-IGO. District paths are projected from that dataset. Boundaries are a dated administrative reference.

Journey driving route

The route animation follows road geometry from © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under ODbL 1.0 and routed with OSRM. The cached route data includes its request, retrieval time, and road snapping offsets.

Place coordinates are reference points rather than surveyed entrances. The animation pauses at the mapped road waypoint near each place. This is an illustrated route snapshot, not current turn-by-turn navigation.

Geographic basemap

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