1890s: (Buganda as Sub-Imperial Agency — The IBEAC Allying with the Protestant Elite, Lugard’s Partnership, the Ganda Assisting in the Subjugation of Bunyoro…

1890s: (Buganda as Sub-Imperial Agency — The IBEAC Allying with the Protestant Elite, Lugard’s Partnership, the Ganda Assisting in the Subjugation of Bunyoro, Toro, and Ankole, Mwanga and Kabarega Exiled to the Seychelles, and Buganda Rewarded with Favored Status Within the Uganda Protectorate): At the north end of Lake Victoria, the IBEAC sought to establish influence over the Protestant elite in Buganda, a kingdom still fragile after the religious wars. The young Lugard allied himself to this elite, which came to value British assistance in bolstering its own position. When the IBEAC experienced financial difficulties in 1893–1894, the British government declared a protectorate over Uganda. In the course of the 1890s, the Ganda assisted politically and militarily in the subjugation of surrounding kingdoms including Bunyoro, Toro, and Ankole. Nyoro resistance was determined and continued until the late 1890s, by which time Mwanga had also attempted his own revolt and was exiled along with Kabarega of Bunyoro to the Seychelles. Buganda was regarded as the ideal sub-imperial agency in the region and was rewarded with a favored status within the protectorate. The IBEAC was also active in British East Africa — the future Kenya — where the government took direct control in 1895, and the coastal Swahili rose in the Mazrui rebellion, though there was initially little violence in the Kenyan interior until the railway and white settlers arrived in the early 1900s.