01/07/2020
As a municipality, Mbarara has had a continuous history only since 1898. Europeans needed to extend the Uganda Protectorate Administration to Ankole,The site had an earlier a history of occupation by the kraal of the traditional ruler of the area, Ntare. In nineteenth century Arabs had accessed the ankole boarders for barter trade of guns with ivory however illegally. Then in 1876 Stanley was the first European known to pass through the edge of the territory.Ankole faced a various threats at that time, both from adverse natural causes and neighbouring Rwanda, Europeans began to be looked to for support. Ntare died unexpectedly in 1895, His natural successor was very young and still insecure. The territory was affected by repercussions resulting from the rebellion of the Kabaka Mwanga in neighbouring Buganda, and the Sudanese Mutiny, both events beginning in 1897. Once these disturbances had been subdued, the way was open for the Protectorate Administration to be extended effectively into Ankole. However, that necessitated a meeting with Ntare who had previously resisted this successfully. At the end of 1898, John Macallister, a senior official in the Protectorate Administration, with considerable pioneering experience, was sent to establish the District headquarters. After a preliminary reconnaissance, and with knowledge gained from earlier journeys by Lugard and Cunningham, he appointed an unoccupied site for this purpose, and called it Mbarara, a local derivation. Initially the station was staffed by Macallister, his deputy, and a small body of British officered Sudanese troops. the rest read history, read about the journey of small trading centre and now is a city (Orurembo)mbarara