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Uganda is a member of the East African Community and a potential member of the planned East African Federation. Uganda has a large diaspora, residing mainly in the United States and the United Kingdom. This diaspora has contributed enormously to Uganda's economic growth through remittances and other investments (especially property).
The coat of arms of Uganda was adopted three weeks before the proclamation of independence by the Uganda Legislative Council. On 1 October 1962 the arms were approved by Governor of Uganda Walter Coutts, and formally established by law on 9 October. [3] The shield and spears represent the willingness of the Ugandan people to defend their country.
Republic of Uganda; Use: National flag and ensign: Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: 9 October 1962; 62 years ago (): Design: Six equal horizontal bands of black (top), yellow, red, black, yellow, and red (bottom); a white disc is superimposed at the centre and depicts the national symbol, a grey crowned crane, facing the hoist side.
In Uganda, the kanzu [27] is the national dress of men in the country. Women from central and eastern Uganda wear a dress with a sash tied around the waist and large exaggerated shoulders called a gomesi. [28] Women from the west and north-west drape a long cloth around their waists and shoulders called suuka. Women from the south-west wear a ...
The speech patterns of Ugandan languages strongly influence spoken English. Uganda has a large variety of indigenous languages, and someone familiar with Uganda can readily identify the native language of a person speaking English. The Bantu languages spoken in southern Uganda tend not to have consonants sounded alone without a vowel in the ...
The location of Uganda An enlargeable map of the Republic of Uganda. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Uganda: . Uganda –commonly referred to as the Pearl [1] by Churchill is a land-locked sovereign country located in East Africa, bordered on the east by Kenya, the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the ...
The redesign, he said, was driven by the need to comply with international practices and to beat counterfeiters. Uganda is the first African country to introduce the advanced security feature SPARK [5] on a regular banknote series. SPARK is an optical security feature recognised by central banks worldwide and is used on a number of banknotes ...
Sign in Kinyarwanda (Rufumbira dialect) and English in Kisoro. In all of the Bantu-speaking areas of Uganda, dialect continua are very common. For example, people around Mbarara speak Runyankore and people from Tooro Kingdom speak Rutooro, but in between those areas there are villages where most of the people speak a dialect that is best characterised as intermediate between Runyankore and ...