The Imperial British East Africa Company, IBEAC for short, was founded after the Treaty of Berlin of 1885. This treaty was an ordinance created at the Conference of Berlin for business regulations of European trade in Africa. As European colonization was improving, and trade developing, many African tribes and countries were losing their rights of self-governance.
On this day December 18th, in 1890, Frederick Lugard occupies Uganda for the British East Africa Company. The IBEAC eventually controlled nearly 250,000 sq. miles along the coast of East Africa. Its sole purpose was to advance Britain’s colonial industry over the land it already controlled.
Lugard was a soldier born in British India. It was a difficult fight for Lugard to win Uganda, but upon victory, much violence and civil disputes ceased. With the IBEAC, Lugard also freed thousands of slaves from Arabs in Zanzibar.