The Buganda people were a smaller but more organized monarchy and fanned the flames of rebellion in neighboring Bunyoro-Kitara. By the late 1600s, Buganda doubled in size through successful military campaigns, and by the 1800s it had become the dominant power in Uganda. One of the keys to their success was the method by which they chose the new “kabaka” or king. Rather than determining inheritance through the paternal line, the throne was inherited by a prince of the queen's clan. As the king married outside of his clan, this method ensured that a single clan could never hold the throne for more than one consecutive reign. Through this power sharing, the Buganda people were united while their neighbors and competitors were racked by internal conflicts. Buganda was a formidable military power and, as a British journalist testified in 1875, "the Kabaka had organized an army of 125,000 men and a fleet of 230 war canoes for a single campaign" (Ofcansky 15). The Buganda were to become the principal indigenous power in colonial and postcolonial Uganda. The Toro nation was created by the disenfranchised son of the Bunyoro-Kitara monarch who left Bunyoro-Kitara and created a rival state to the southwest of the Bunyoro Kingdom. . After defeating his father's army sent to destroy his young nation, Prince Kaboyo created a small, well-run state. After his death, a period of strife occurred which was then followed by the British placement of Kasagama as king of Toro. Kasagama was friendly towards the Buganda nation with whom the British had allied and was therefore a natural choice. The last major nation in southern Uganda is the Ankole. Initially a pastoral people in southwestern Uganda, the Ankole have managed to remain... middle of paper ...... that each nation knows how best to meet the needs of its people. the NRM is neither pro-West nor pro-East; he is pro-Uganda” (Ofcansky 58). The second independence movement that this essay will examine is that of a small island nation named Sao Tome and Principe. Works Cited Rubenson, Sven. “Some aspects of the survival of Ethiopian independence during the period of the Scramble for Africa.” JSTOR. Institute of Ethiopian Studies, nd Web. April 2, 2014. “Uganda Profile.” BBC News. BBC, March 14, 2014. Web. March 18, 2014. “Profile of Sao Tome and Principe.” BBC News. BBC and Web. March 18, 2014.Childs, Peter and Patrick Williams. An introduction to postcolonial theory. London: Prentice http://www19.homepage.villanova.edu/silvia.nagyzekmi/teoria/childs%20postcolonial.pdfHall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1997. Print. “Ethiopia Profile”. BBC News. BBC and Web. March 18. 2014.