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This chapter highlights a few phenomena observed at the Chimpanzee Forest Guest House that evoked the British Empire in the authors mind and seeks to show how these have come to be transformed in their consumption and appropriation within western Uganda. It provides the initial geographical and historical setting of the Isunga Tea Estate and Chimpanzee Forest Guest House with a short overview of the development of the Kingdom of Toro and a biographical sketch of C.W. Switzer, the founder of the estate. The chapter considers food and drink, flora and fauna, and technology, and indicates how these topics contain issues that indicate the transformation of innovation, whereby innovations (both material and cultural) initiated outside of Africa have been transformed within the context of this Ugandan estate. Keywords: Africa; British Empire; Chimpanzee Forest Guest House; Isunga Tea Estate; Kingdom of Toro; western Uganda |
