1/18/2011

Uganda - Kampala

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Uganda

***** Location: Uganda
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Earth


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Explanation

Kabaka of Uganda

The Kabaka is the king of the Baganda (Uganda). He gave the seven hills of Kampala to the most important organisations of the country :
the hospital, the university, the Anglican Cathedral, the Catholic Cathedral, administrative offices and his own palace.


seven hills
each given by the Kabaka --
each a special place

Isabelle Prondzynski


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The kingdom of Buganda intermittently pressed for independence from Uganda, which raised the question of the protectorate’s future status. Discussions in London in 1961 led to full internal self-government in March 1962. Benedicto Kiwanuka, a Roman Catholic Muganda who was formerly chief minister, became the first prime minister, but in the elections in April 1962 he was displaced by Milton Obote a Lango (Langi) who headed the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party.

At further discussions in London in June 1962, it was agreed that Buganda should receive a wide degree of autonomy within a federal relationship. Faced with the emergence of Obote’s UPC, which claimed support throughout the country apart from Buganda, and of the Democratic Party (DP), which was based in Buganda and led by Kiwanuka, conservative Ganda leaders set up their own rival organization, Kabaka Yekka (KY), “King Alone.”





Uganda became independent on October 9, 1962, although it was divided politically on a geographic as well as an ethnic basis. By accepting a constitution that conceded what amounted to federal status to Buganda, Obote contrived an unlikely alliance with the Ganda establishment.

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Things found on the way



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HAIKU



Kampala —
women in gomesi
kneel to greet us

matoke lunch —
our legs are stretched
on the floor mat


Jinja Dam —

silent deep water turning
mighty turbines


Patrick Wafula
July 2011

Owen Falls Dam Jinja Kenya
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seeing a fenesi
for the first time —
Iganga Forest


polluted lake -
a reeking stench hits
our noses


. Kampala Diaries March 2012 .
Patrick Wafula

fenesi
, jackfruit, Artocarpus heterophyllus
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The River Nile at Jinja Bridge


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Related words

***** WKD : Personal Names and Haiku


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