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…

An email sent to Buganda Post by someone who claims to have family in Nanziga, Masaka Road, Busiro county requests us to inform one Ms. Nakitto Sempa that her land in Naziga is being illegally grabbed by a man called Haji Musaayi. And that Musaayi is only a front for wealth Banyankore who want to make Masaka road their education corridor where their children get educated but can easily escape or be defended West of Kampala if things went wrong…

This is my last column on Buganda Post for the foreseeable future and it is dedicated to one of the few Baganda politicians who have the capacity to see beyond the “village chief” political system that President Museveni created in Uganda. It is Beti Namisango Kamya, the woman who threw a spanner in the Banyankore/Bakiga/Banyarwanda conspiracy to marginalize Baganda and make Kabaka and his subjects beggars in their own homeland. More on Beti later.

It is always very difficult to say goodbye to the ones you love. Even more so when the reasons for leaving a totally out of your control. It is against that background that this columnist must tell you that this will be her last posting for the foreseeable future.

In what some Baganda political analysts see as a veiled reference to embattled Katikkiro JB Walusimbi, the Buganda Minister of State for Research, Daudi Mpanga, and the Chairman of Kabaka’s Central Civic Education Committee (CCEC), Betty Nambooze have warned Baganda that Buganda’s enemies are trying to isolate Kabaka Mutebi from his subjects. Mpanga and Nambooze were speaking at a one day seminar which was organized by the CCEC for the surrogate speakers (abogezi) who work at kwanjula ceremonies. Disregarding Kabaka’s instructions, Katikkiro Walusimbi has for several months been secretly negotiating with president Museveni and vice president Bukenya on how to quieten the “Mmengo radicals” who…

Since mid-2008 the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Wafula Ogutu, Salam Musumba and other senior party officials have been politically pinned down by one woman, Beti Namisango Kamya. They have tried hard to politically destroy Beti (Lubaga North MP in Mr. Museveni’s parliament )  for “getting obsessed with Buganda”. But they [...]

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 [...]