He does have control - I was being pedantic as he is usually so accurate.
Although in this region there might have been an issue as names change, and so do country borders - e.g. Port Florence (Kisumu) was the terminus of the Uganda railway, this was in Uganda at the time. It was decided that as the rest of the railway was in Kenya that the border should be changed changed to incorporate it. It was changed and the railway, still called the Uganda Railway, no longer went to Uganda. Couple of very interesting books on this region: The Lunatic Express: An Entertainment in Imperialism and The White Nile by Alan Moorehead.
Airclues: the hotel is the Silver Springs hotel, which is on the road from Port Bell to Kampala. It has changed completely since this photo, even in the last 10 years it has been rebuilt since I knew it in the 90's/00's.
Lake Victoria Hotel in Entebbe is largely unchanged, although they have moved the entrance from where you would have known it to round the back - and rather scruffy and downbeat, and the entrance and drive is now a terrace and pathways through the gardens.
SD - over to you