The Buganda people were a smaller but more organized monarchy and fanned the flames of rebellion in nearby Bunyoro-Kitara. By the end of the 16th century Buganda doubled in size thanks to successful military campaigns, and by the 19th century it became the dominant power in Uganda. A key to their success was the method by which they chose the new “kabaka” or king. Instead of determining inheritance through the paternal line, the throne was inherited by a prince of the queen's clan. Since the king married outside his clan, this method ensured that a single clan could never occupy the throne for more than one reign in a row. Through this sharing of power, the Buganda people were united while their neighbors and competitors were shaken by internal conflicts. The Buganda were a formidable military force, and as witnessed by a British journalist 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 would become the major native power in both colonial and postcolonial Uganda. The Toro nation was created by the disenfranchised son of the Bunyoro-Kitara monarch who left Bunyoro-Kitara and founded a rival state southwest of the Bunyoro kingdom. . After defeating his father's army sent to destroy his fledgling nation, Prince Kaboyo created a well-run but small state. After his death, a period of conflict occurred which was followed by the British appointment of Kasagama as king of Taurus. Kasagama was friendly towards the Buganda nation with whom the British had allied themselves, and was therefore a natural choice. The last major nation in southern Uganda is the Ankole. Born as a pastoral people in southwestern Uganda, the Ankole have managed to remain... middle of paper... so that every nation knows how to best address the needs of its people. the NRM is neither pro-Western nor pro-Eastern; is pro-Uganda” (Ofcansky 58). The second independence movement this essay will examine is that of a small island nation called Sao Tome et Principe. Works Cited Rubenson, Sven. "Some aspects of the survival of Ethiopian independence in the period of the scramble for Africa". JSTOR. Institute of Ethiopian Studies, n.d. Web. 02 April 2014. “Uganda Profile.” BBC News. BBC, 14 March 2014. Web. 18 March 2014."Profile of Sao Tomé and Principe." BBC News. BBC and Web. 18 March 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. 18 March. 2014.