Muniini K. Mulera

Memories of a Ugandan Christmas and lessons from a Canadian experience

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaDecember 27, 20220 comments

#Christmas #Rusoorooza #Rushoroza #Rugarama #Kigyezi #Kigezi #Kabale #Kabaare

St. Peter's Cathedral, Rugarama, Kabaare, Kigyezi on December 25, 2019. Photo © Muniini K. Mulera ******************* I trust that you had a blessed Christmas celebration. This was our third Christmas in a row celebrated away from Uganda. The Lord, of course, always delights ...

Political and administrative structure of Kigyezi Region

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi PoliticsOctober 28, 20220 comments

#Rukiga #Rukungiri #Kanungu #Kisoro #Rubanda #Kabale #Kabaare #Kigezi #Kigyezi

Kigyezi, a colonial construct in 1911, was a single administrative district throughout the colonial period (1911-1962) and the first eighteen years of Uganda's independence (1962). It was then subdivided into two districts in 1974, and then smaller districts in the years that followed. ...

Kigyezi: the land and its people

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziOctober 26, 20220 comments

#Kigyezi #Muhabura #Bunyonyi #Kikuba #Mparo #Rukungiri #Kabale #Kisoro #Kanungu #Rukiga #Rubanda

Region: Kigyezi Districts: Kabaare (Kabale), Kaanungu, Gisoro (Kisoro), Rubanda, Rukiga, Rukungiri. Total Area: 5,098 sq. km. Population: 1.7 million people Map of Uganda Mount Muhabura, Bufumbira (Gisoro), Kigyezi (December 26, 2006) ...

Jovia Battaka employed kindness and respect as a tool for teaching

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 26, 20220 comments

#Battaka #Bataka #Kigezi #Kigyezi

(Photo: A teacher with her former student, July 1999. © Muniini Mulera) Another dark season. Depressing news from Kampala. One of my favourite primary school teachers is dead. Her beautiful smile stilled forever on Saturday July 23. Her wisdom and industry filed ...

Women empowerment good for marital and family stability

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 8, 20221 comments

#Ninsiima #Murembe #Neema #Tudyazayo #Natukunda #women #empowerment #Kigezi #Kigyezi

Roundtable: Left to right: Evelyne Ninsiima, Clezanta Natukunda, Francine Tudyazayo, Clementia Murembe Neema & Prossy Nyeitera (host, Voice of Kigezi 89.5 FM) A changing climate and environmental degradation are, to a large extent, a result of human ignorance, ...

Kigezi High School@100: celebrate forgotten founders and builders

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi EducationMarch 2, 20220 comments

#KHS #Kigezi #Kigyezi

Kigezi High School turned 100 this month. The centenary celebrations are honouring the famous people whose journeys passed through that school. Those alive today, and especially the politicians, dominate the names celebrated in speech, in writing and, perhaps, in song. Wealthy businesspersons ...

Mutebile was a worthy successor to Kigyezi’s selfless leaders

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 1, 20220 comments

#Mutebile #Tumusiime #Ruhakana #Rugunda #Kabale #Kabaare #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Uganda

Photo: (Front left) Lawrence Kiondo, Kigyezi District Education Officer; John Bikangaga, Rutakirwa Engage ya Kigyezi (second right); Rev. Abraham Zaaribugire (with clerical collar), Ishmael Bamwangiraki, Headmaster (centre, sunglasses); and other leaders at Karukaata ...

Tumusiime Mutebile was the real deal

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 24, 20220 comments

#Mutebile #Tumusiime #Ruhakana #Rugunda #Kabale #Kabaare #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Uganda

His name was Emmanuel Kirenga Baryabota Tumusiime Mutebile. Some called him The Governor. Others called him Professor. And others called him Doctor. I called him Tumusiime. And he always answered to that name, one I called him when I became pulled into his orbit in 1965 or 1966. Kabaare, ...

Childhood memory of a cold tropical Africa

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 30, 20210 comments

#Kabale #Kabaare #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Weather

In a conversation this weekend with a friend in Kabaare, Kigyezi, she reported that it was distressingly cold in her house, even for one born and raised in that land of beautiful mountains and valleys, famed for its cold nights and mornings, and perfectly warm afternoons. I quickly ...

Who will tell her the stories of her ancestors in her mother tongue?

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda CultureNovember 8, 20210 comments

#Culture #Kigyezi #Kigezi #Rukiga #Tibihika #oral #stories #Mubangizi #Tibaanyendera

I love a good story, told the way my grandmothers and other elders held me captive on many unforgettable evenings during my childhood. Those stories, narrated in Orukiga, my mother-language, were laced with idioms, proverbs, songs and sounds that would quickly transport me to ...

Manzi Tumubweine was born with a fortune

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 15, 20210 comments

#Manzi #Tumubweine #Kamuheesi #Kamwezi #Kigezi #Kigyezi

Manzi Tumubweine, who died on June 11 at the age of 80, was born with a fortune. No, not the stuff that consumes humanity in an endless, pointlessly vain pursuit of cash and fame. His great fortune was an extraordinary intellect and resilience that shaped and sustained him and his ...

International Community of Banyakigyezi welcomes all presidential candidates to Kigyezi.

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziDecember 15, 20200 comments

#Kigezi #Kigyezi #ICOB

A flyer welcoming a particular presidential candidate to Kigyezi was posted on some social media platforms last week. This flyer, complete with the image and party colours of that candidate, was created by a person or persons in Uganda purportedly writing in the name of the ...

Covid-19 brings opportunities for positive change, even progress

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 5, 20200 comments

#Covid19 #Kigezi #Kigyezi #ICOB #Abanyakigezi

Out of adversity comes innovation. The ugliest experiences offer opportunities for positive change and progress. Even Covid-19 – painful, debilitating, bringer of death – is forcing changes with potential advantages. When the virus reached these shores ...

Muhabura smiles

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 2, 20200 comments

#Muhabura #Sebahire #Karwemera #Kigyezi #Kigezi #Muganza

Muhabura, The Guide Woke up this morning Shed her clothes bare Bids him welcome home Festo Karwemera To the land of his ancestors. She looks down South And winks at the past Empimbi za Muganza Where his revered ancestors Called home the other day A few ...

Festo Karwemera was among the best of the great generation

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 1, 20200 comments

#Karwemera #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Muranga

Photo: Omugurusi Festo Karwemera on January 8, 2020 Kigyezi, the land of my birth and people, shivers in the darkness of an orphan, bereft of words that adequately express the depth of pain that weighs upon us. Our leader and guide, Omugurusi Festo Karwemera Mwene ...

ICOB and education in Kigyezi: a slide show progress report

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziAugust 22, 20200 comments

#ICOB #Kigezi #Kigyezi #KEF #Rukungiri #Kizinga #Nyakatare #Nyarushanje #Kisoro

The Kigezi Education Fund is the flagship project of the International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB). This initiative, which was launched in 2004, represents our commitment to empowering the next generation of Banyakigezi. Please click on this link to watch a brief slide show of ...