Clans and totems of Banyankore (Enganda n'Emiziro y'Abanyankore) By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziJanuary 2, 20191 comments The Banyankore are grouped into at least 131 clans (enganda). However, these clans are grouped according to 4 (four) common roots (ebibunu or ebisintsi bina). These roots are: Abahinda (16 clans) Abagahe (43 clans) Abashambo (56 clans) Abaishikatwa (16 clans) Whereas ...
Rukiga District: brief facts and figuresBy Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziOctober 27, 20223 commentsDistrict: Rukiga Total Area: 426.3 sq. km. Population: 106,000 people (2021) Males: 51,300 (2021) Females: 54,700 (2021) Male: Female ratio: 0.94:1 Population density: 249/sq. km. Geography: Rukiga is a mountainous boot-shaped wedge in South West Uganda, ...
Counting (numbers) in Rukiga/RunyankoreBy Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi CultureOctober 30, 20220 commentsOur ancestors had a counting system whose terminology was similar to or shared roots with that of Bantu language nations all over Africa. It appears that there were words for quantities/amounts up to, at most, ten thousand. It is very unlikely that there was an item that needed enumeration ...
Banyarukiga, there is power in unityBy Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi PoliticsOctober 30, 20220 commentsThe advent of Rukiga’s transformation into a district filled me with hope for positive change. I was born in Kabaare, Kigyezi, to a Munyakabaare mother and a Munyakahondo father who went to Mparo to work in 1954. There they settled and we became dual citizens of Ndorwa and Rukiga ...
Political and administrative structure of Kigyezi RegionBy Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi PoliticsOctober 28, 20220 commentsKigyezi, 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. ...
Key events in the history of Kigyezi from 1500 t 1930By Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi HistoryOctober 27, 20220 commentsIt is believed, with reliable evidence from studies of pollens, that the area now known as Kigyezi had human settlements at least as far back as 2000 years ago. However, there is no reliable information about our ancestors before about 1500 AD. Likewise, the pre-colonial history ...
Kigyezi: the land and its peopleBy Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziOctober 26, 20220 commentsRegion: 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) ...
Kigezi High School@100: celebrate forgotten founders and buildersBy Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi EducationMarch 2, 20220 commentsKigezi 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 ...
International Community of Banyakigyezi welcomes all presidential candidates to Kigyezi.By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziDecember 15, 20200 comments 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 ...
ICOB and education in Kigyezi: a slide show progress reportBy Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziAugust 22, 20200 commentsThe 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 ...
Festo Karwemera: a productive life, a great legacyBy Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziAugust 17, 20200 commentsTo have a brilliant mind is a blessing. To put that mind to work - teaching students, supervising schools, carrying out extensive research and publishing reference books on your chosen subject – is a priceless legacy. To have that mind in excellent shape in your tenth decade ...
Kabaare Town’s recovery a reminder that leadership mattersBy Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziJuly 23, 20190 commentsI write from Naivasha, Kenya, a town I last visited four years ago. My wife and I, together with our friends, are enjoying our stay at the Lake Naivasha Country Club, an 84-year-old hotel that retains an ambiance that would have been familiar to its patrons in the 1930s. ...
Uganda's spectacular beauty and the ICOB Convention in the USABy Muniini K. MuleraKigyezi Kigyezi TourismJuly 16, 20190 comments(Photo: Ibirunga across Lake Mutanda © Muniini K. Mulera) I write from Kabaare, the town of my childhood and early youth, which continues to be misspelt as “Kabale,” a meaningless word that was imposed by this area’s colonial rulers a little over a century ...
Kigezi Education Fund: update 2018 By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziAugust 10, 20180 comments The Kigezi Education Fund (KEF) is the flagship program of the International Community of Banyakigezi (ICOB). A key instrument for implementing ICOB’s mission, KEF supports vocational and technical training of young Banyakigyezi, especially graduates of primary and secondary ...
Canadian reminder of Kigezi’s unexploited tourism potential By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziJuly 10, 20180 comments A week after the gathering of Banyakigyezi in Vancouver, British Columbia, my wife and I, together with our two very close friends, are continuing our tour of parts of this beautiful province of Canada. The gorgeous snow-capped rocky mountains; the many rivers with crystal ...
Kigyezi, Canada: Beautiful By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziJuly 11, 20180 comments Two scenes. Two continents. Strong similar emotion. Beautiful. What a world we live in! Mutagamba- at the border of Kabaare and Rukiga Districts. February 2018. Near Whistler, British Columbia. July 2018.