In early July 2009 the leading Internet search engine and software services company, Google, Inc., introduced an interface that allows users to access their search tools in Luganda. Unfortunately, about 50% of the translations are only literal, and semantically incorrect. Since July 27, 2009, thirty five (35) Baganda have contacted Buganda Post by email to [...]

A Buganda Post reader and Facebook member in the UK informed us that Kabaka Muwenda Mutebi II is on Facebook, more evidence to his subjects of how technology savvy he is. When we contacted sources close to Banda Palace, we learnt that Kabaka Mutebi has been an avid computer and Internet user since the early [...]

Nabadda is a short Luganda film about a young and poor Muganda orphan girl who agreed to marry an uncouth business man if he first paid for her education through nursing school. This film is a living testament of the unstoppable ingenuity of Baganda despite over 40 years of Uganda government efforts to break their spirits. You have to see it to believe it! And the ending is a good one too.

The story of Nabadda was written and…

Solomon Kyabayinze Mpalanyi, one of Buganda’s foremost novelists and Luganda language experts is dead. According to family sources, Omutaka Mpalanyi died from a spike in his blood pressure which could not be controlled at the run down Mulago Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 8:00 PM on February 2, 2009. Mpalanyi has been part of the generation of exceptional Baganda literary masters who are credited for creating Buganda’s popular novel industry. The most famous of his books is Basajja Mivule, followed by Ndikumma Okulya (Nenkulyoowa Omwooyo). He also wrote Ssanyu Teribeerera, Nnaku Teba Y’omu and a few others.

The family sources add that Omutaka Mpalanyi’s health has been generally alright. And that the high blood pressure attack…

The head of one of the largest and most powerful Baganda clans, Mmamba (lung fish), passed away on January 20, 2009 after an extended period of poor health. Gabunga Yosiya Kasozi died in Mulago Hospital. Gabunga was  86 years old (Not 90 as we reported earlier in Gabunga Yosiya Kasozi of Mmamba Clan Is Very [...]

This is a follow up to our article of December 28, 2008 on the great Buganda county of Kyadondo. This article is about the great frontier county of Kyaggwe. Last time we told you that since 1966 Uganda governments have worked hard to destroy the idea of Buganda’s counties or masaza (singular: ssaza). Presidents Obote, Amin and more recently Museveni have all established administrative units to cut up Buganda and create a system destroying the geographic integrity of Buganda and thereby make the continued existence of the kingdom impractical (see The Great County of Kyadondo, Buganda article).

Since 1966 Uganda governments have worked hard to destroy the idea of Buganda’s counties or masaza (singular: ssaza). Presidents Obote, Amin and more recently Museveni have all established administrative units to cut up Buganda and create a system destroying the geographic integrity of Buganda and thereby make the continued existence of the kingdom impractical. Such artificial administrative units included Region, Province, District, LCs and Regional Tier. Mr. Museveni’s government has gone as far as introducing the name “Central Region” to replace “Buganda”.

Traditionally, Buganda is divided into 18 counties or masaza: Buddu, Bugerere, Bulemeezi, Buluuli, Busiro, Busujju, Butambala, Buvuma, Buweekula, Gomba, Kabula, Kooki, Kyaddondo, Kyaggwe, Mawogola, Mawokota, Ssese, Ssingo.

According to a press release issued by Mr. Dick Kasolo, the Kabaka’s press officer, Ssabasajja Kabaka wa Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, has called on the people of Buganda to remain united in the New Year 2009 in order to promote development in the Kingdom.  The focus on the message is on two challenges that

We have verified information from young members of the Mmamba clan at Makerere University that the head of the (lung fish) clan, “Jajja” Yosiya Kasozi is quite sick. Gabunga Kasozi who is over 90 years old, has been in bad general health for about a year and even having trouble to talk to his grandchildren, all the Mmamba clan members.

The first Gabunga of the Mmamba clan was Mubiru who is estimated to have been alive around the year 1250. Yosiya Kasozi is the 36th Gabunga. He ascended to the position of Gabunga in 1959, when he succeeded his late father Semyoni Galiwango Gabunga. His mother was the late Kulisitiina Noola Ndwaddewazibwa of the Nsenene clan.

A few years ago Kabaka Mutebi authorized members of the Nankere sub clan (ssiga) within Mmamba to break off and become an autonomous clan, named Mmamba Enkerekere.

According to a news report on the Buganda Kingdom website Buganda citizens from Bugerere county who are called Banyala visted with the Katikkiro of Buganda, Owek. JB Walusimbi in his offices at Bulange Mengo on Friday afternoon. The report adds that they “distanced them-selves from the Ssaabanyala institution. They emphasized that the institution is being forced on to them by individuals who have their own selfish needs and that their head has always been known as Nkojjo who is answerable to the Kabaka of Buganda and not to any one else.

“The group went ahead to say that, they also have a clan leader called Nsamba Fred and said that they will always oppose the Ssabanyala institution.

“The Katikkiro later promised them that he will work hand in hand with other Kingdom officials to further look into their concerns which he said should be not mixed with the Buluuli issues.”