While migrant settlement projects were underway northeast of the Great Lakes Region, the cities along the great lakes, especially the port cities, had not been idle either.
The focus shifted to Kampala and Entebbe in April 1916.
Kampala was now the seat of the Provincial Government of East Africa's North Great Lakes Province, while Entebbe had been the capital of the former Kingdom of Buganda and was now the second-largest city in North Great Lakes Province, only a little over twenty kilometers from Kampala.
As for North Great Lakes Province's third-largest city, it was not on the shores of the great lakes but on the shore of what had been Lake Albert in the previous life. North Great Lakes Province had numerous lakes; aside from the most famous Lake Victoria, there were Lake Albert, Lake Kyoga, Lake Wamala, and others. Judging by water surface area alone, all of them ranked among the world's great lakes.
It was only that, before the many outstanding giant lakes of East Africa's Great Lakes, they appeared to fade into the crowd.
Thus, North Great Lakes Province, centered on the territory of Uganda from the previous life, absolutely counted as East Africa's "land of fish and rice." Lakes, rivers, plains, hills, and mountain ranges reflected one another in brilliant splendor; in an agrarian age, one could not find better land anywhere.
Kampala and Entebbe stood upon this fertile and bountiful land.
Take Kampala city, for example. Uganda of the previous life had been called the pearl of the East African Highlands by the British, while Kampala had been called "the pearl within the pearl."
Although the British had said it so often that the word "pearl" had suffered severe depreciation, the double endorsement still proved the high hopes the British had placed upon this land