Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe in Luo; ‘Nnalubaale in Luganda; Nyanza in some Bantu languages) is one of the African Great Lakes.

The Lake was renamed Lake Victoria after when the explorer called John Hanning Speke had Finnished discovering it.

Speke accomplished this in 1858,

This expedition was financially sponsored by the Royal Geographic Society.

In a Town called Jinja which is located in Uganda, that is where the waters of Lake Victoria meets or unites with the waters of the source of the River Nile.

Water has always been the means through which trade (transportation of goods, humans, spiritual energies, etc are moved from one location to another).

And that is the reason why the lake was called by the name of “Nnalubale” in the Buganda region in Uganda,

Because through the waters of the lake  many activities which activated the movements of traditional spirits were put into motion using the water of the lake.

And thus; when the English colonized Uganda, they found it necessary to change the name to Lake Victoria.

The lake’s area is divided among three countries:

Kenya (6 percent or 4,100 square kilometres or 1,600 square miles), Uganda (45 percent or 31,000 square kilometres or 12,000 square miles), and Tanzania (49 percent or 33,700 square kilometres or 13,000 square miles).