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Shon Wyz Champions Peace and Unity as Busoga Kingdom Tourism

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⚠️ Where IS 👑 *@KingNadiopeIV* , #KYABAZINGA OF # *BUSOGA* KINGDOM

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Buganda Kingdom Condemns Being Excluded From the Official Ugandan Map

The Buganda Kingdom has issued a statement expressing its disapproval of being omitted from Uganda’s official map. Recently, various government bodies have been producing maps that depict different regions according to their ethnic identities. For instance, regions have been designated as Ankole, Busoga, Bunyoro, Tooro, Lango, among others. Yet, Buganda has merely been categorized as the Central…

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Busoga Kingdom Announces Suspension of Conjugal Rights for Subjects Ahead of Royal Wedding

By Hason Mutunzi Bwambale 

- In a surprising announcement, the Busoga Kingdom has declared a suspension of conjugal rights for its subjects in the lead-up to the highly anticipated royal wedding. The decision, which has raised eyebrows among the community, aims to maintain cultural traditions and ensure the uninterrupted focus on the upcoming nuptials. According to the Busoga Kingdom officials, the directive is a customary practice rooted in preserving the sanctity of the royal union. As the kingdom prepares for the wedding of King Nadiope Gabula George William IV and her soon-to-be wife Jovia Mutesi scheduled to take place on the 18th November, 2023 , the suspension of conjugal rights is seen as a gesture of respect for the bride and groom. The Busoga Kingdom, located in eastern Uganda, has a rich cultural heritage built on deeply ingrained traditions. The forthcoming royal wedding is considered a significant event for the kingdom and its subjects, making the suspension of conjugal rights an integral part of the pre-wedding preparations. While the announcement has taken many by surprise, subjects have been asked to respect and abide by the temporary prohibition. Correspondingly, the Busoga Kingdom has assured its subjects that the suspension will only be in effect for a limited period leading up to and immediately following the royal wedding. The decision has sparked mixed reactions in the community. Some individuals expressed their support for the cultural preservation and the significance attached to the royal wedding, viewing the suspension of conjugal rights as a small sacrifice in honoring their traditions. However, others have voiced concerns about the intrusion into their personal lives. They argue that the decision infringes on individual rights, particularly in matters concerning intimacy. Critics contend that the suspension may lead to marital strife and create unnecessary conflicts within households. The Busoga Kingdom officials have stressed that the directive is not legally binding but rather a cultural guideline that subjects are expected to respect voluntarily. They see it as an opportunity for the community to come together to celebrate the upcoming wedding without distractions. As the date of the royal wedding approaches, the Busoga Kingdom has also outlined a host of other cultural activities and events to commemorate the union of King Nadiope and her soon-to-be wife Jovia . These festivities aim to showcase the rich cultural heritage of the kingdom and deepen the sense of community among its subjects. The Busoga Kingdom, through its spokesperson, has requested understanding and cooperation from its subjects during this period. They hope that the temporary suspension of conjugal rights will be observed with dignity and respect, contributing to the overall success and joyfulness of the royal wedding celebrations. Read the full article

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Here’s another photo with a better view of the tiara. She also wearing a traditional Ugandan dress called a gomesi.

Busoga is one of five sub-national kingdoms within Uganda. The others are Buganda, Bunyoro, Rwenzururu, and Tooro. They are officially recognized by the government as constituent kingdoms but their borders don’t match up with modern day countries. African Royal Families has a good overview of the Ugandan kingdoms here and one about Busoga here. If you are interested in African royalty I highly recommend following them on Instagram.

The couple have already had a private traditional ceremony and their public religious wedding will be on November 18th at Christ Cathedral Bugembe in Jinja City. I’m not sure if she will wear a tiara but a few other Ugandan royals have worn tiaras on their wedding days so I am hopeful that she will and we’ll get lots of good photos.

TIARA ALERT: Queen (Inhebantu) Jovia Mutesi of Busoga wore a diamond tiara for an official portrait following the announcement of her marriage to King (Kyabazinga) William Gabula Nadiope IV of Busoga on 7 September 2023.

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Busoga Kingdom minister released on police bond – UGNEWS24 By ANDREW BAGALA The minister for tourism in Busoga Kingdom has been released on police bond after spending five hours under police interrogation on allegations that she and others still at large, have been behind social media attacks against Bukedea District Woman Member of Parliament Anita Among.

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Bicycle race competitions launched in Busoga Kingdom

Bicycle race competitions launched in Busoga Kingdom

By Our Reporter MTN Uganda in partnership with Busoga Kingdom has launched a bicycle racing competition in the Eastern Kingdom of Busoga. The bicycle racing competition launch comes only days after the kingdom concluded a four-month-long MTN sponsored football tournament dubbed the Busoga Masaza cup that engaged all the counties of Busoga Kingdom. The launch of the Busoga Kingdom bicycle race…

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UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_Intangible_Cultural_Heritage_Lists

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High Court In Jinja Maintains Nadiope As Kyabazinga Of Busoga.

By Musisi Yiga John Updated at 1639 EAT on FEB 18 2022. Kyabazinga (king) William Gabula Nadiope of Busoga Kingdom Jinja high Court today ruled on the alleged illegality of the Kyabazinga of Busoga Kingdom, William Gabula Nadiope IV, in a case filed by the chief of Bulamogi, Prince Edward Columbus Wambuzi, shortly after the former’s election in September 2014.In the judgement read by the deputy…

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I Congratulate Your Majesty William Wilberforce Gabula Nadiope IV upon the 7th anniversary of your coronation as the Kyabazinga of the Great Kingdom of Busoga. #Kyabazinga https://www.instagram.com/p/CTw8L36Ls25/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Congratulations Your Majesty William Wilberforce Gabula Nadiope IV upon the 7th anniversary of your coronation as the Kyabazinga of the Great Kingdom of Busoga. #Kyabazinga https://www.instagram.com/p/CTw50tmroEn/?utm_medium=tumblr

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TWO GRANDSONS OF BUNYORO CELEBRATING THEIR CORONATION ANNIVERSARY Two grandsons of Bunyoro Kitara-Kingdom are celebrating their coronation anniversaries this month. The Omukama of Tooro Dr. Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru IV is today celebrating his 26th coronation anniversary.  The Prime Minister of Bunyoro Rt. Hon. Andrew Byakutaga Ateenyi has graced the celebrations. The Kyabazinga William Wilberforce Gabula Nadiope IV will celebrate his 7th coronation anniversary tomorrow. Dr. Oyo is a grandson of Omukama Kyebambe Nyamutukura III who ruled Bunyoro-Kitara from 1786-1835. Omukama Kamurasi sent his eldest son Kaboyo Olimi I to Tooro to count all his cattle but the son rebelled and started Tooro Kingdom. Omukama Kamurasi's soldiers wanted to attack Tooro and hold the Prince captive but the King directed otherwise. Nyamutukura first established his capital at Ruhunga in Buhimba sub county but later shifted to Nyamarunda in Kibaale district where he was buried. The Kyabazinga of Busoga was enthroned by the reigning King of Bunyoro Dr. Solomon Gafabusa Iguru I in September 2014. The Kyabazinga has roots of his ancestry in Bunyoro. Each Kyabazinga is installed by the reigning King of Bunyoro. The rituals of enthroning a Kyabazinga are performed at Mpumudde hill where Omukama Kabalega rested and died in 1923 on his way from exile in Seychelles island. As Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, we congratulate the two Kingdom's upon this milestone and we pledge to work with them in taking advantage of the historical relationship for the betterment of our peoples. https://www.instagram.com/p/CTu-t8urBM8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Magada Ronald better known by his stage name Maro aka the, ''RnB Kyabazinga'' is from a small town across the great river Nile in the kingdom of Busoga, Uganda. The usigned multi awarded Afro RnB artiste has been doing music locally for 8 years now and on the move to engulf the Eastern Africa and the continent through his new direction which saw him most recently on one of the biggest African Music Platforms on VOA Africa 54. His music has been on the waves and slowly becoming sing songs among his fans and new international fans. The artiste has a vision and direction, coupled with his humble character, no doubt he will be one of those exports soon. New Music Alert!! #mwenhewo out of his #89gooddecisionsalbum is out... link on his BIO. Having worked with Maro we take this opportunity to wish him a happy birthday and more good music 💥💥🔥 Happy Birthday to this amazing Ugandan RNB Kyabazinga @marouganda. @thenaiboi @heisrema @irene_ntale @howwe.biz @jchameleon @msetoeastafrica @mzaziwillytuva @willisraburu @winnienwagi @sheebahricherthisyear @fashioncityuganda @uganda_tourism @ugandanallstar @sparktvuganda @capitalfmuganda @urbantvuganda #happybirthday #entertainment #rnbking #igers #gainwithcarlz #gaintrick #gaintrain #gainfollowers #gainpost #visitkenya #uganda (at Kampala, Uganda) https://www.instagram.com/hotline_clique/p/BxJsV9wJ-ZR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u7ctx22cmm2t

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By David Sepuya Kalanzi

This year, Ugandans have witnessed the use of DNA tests to settle prominent public cases in the media concerning the paternity of children and of celebrities who have died. What has not been known to many people is the dispute concerning the ethnicity of the ancient Egyptians by scholars in the 20th Century. This dispute has been solved scientifically by the DNA tests conducted on the mummies of the ancient Egyptians in 2012 and 2013.

In December 2012, DNA tests were conducted on the mummies of Pharaoh Rameses III and his son, which proved that they belonged to human Y chromosome group E1b1a. This is the Y chromosome group of Sub Saharan Africans who speak Niger–Congo languages.

The disclosed Y chromosome group of the Pharaoh, at the time of releasing the report, was considered as just one of the details to make the investigation scientifically solid with facts. But its revelation caused a stir equal to the purpose of the original forensic investigation. Another group of mummies from the Amarna period of Egyptian pharaohs were tested by DNA Tribes, an American Company which specialises in conducting DNA tests, in 2013.

The conclusion of the tests were that the mummies autosomal profiles would be most frequent in the present day populations of the African Great Lakes region and Southern Africa. Subsequent analysis of the autosomal profile of the mummy of Pharaoh Rameses III also concluded that this matched the genetic profiles of the population of the Great Lakes region as well.

It was reported in the DNA Tribe’s digest of February 2013, that the DNA match results of the ancient Egyptian Amarna royal mummies with the present day world regions reflect the population changes in Africa after the time of Rameses III . One issue which remains unresolved is that of language. The language of ancient Egypt is classified as belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, which are spoken by people like the Somali and Amhara of Ethiopia, while the genetic profiles of the mummies match those of Niger–Congo language speakers. The most likely explanation is that some of the Niger-Congo speaking people, who were carriers of human Y chromosome E1b1a, moved into ancient Egypt along the Nile from the Sahara region as the region dried up and fused with the Afro-Asiatic speaking people, giving rise to the unique language of ancient Egypt.

However, these speakers of the Niger–Congo language went on to form the ruling class producing pharaohs for Egypt, while retaining the customs which they practised in common with their relatives who had migrated south into the Great Lakes region as the genetic tests have shown.

THE CONNECTIONS

The strong cultural connection between the ancient Egyptians and the modern people of the Great Lakes region of Africa have long been noted for more than a century now by ethnographers (people who study ethnicity). The following examples illustrate this connection.

Female heirs. 

The Egyptian pharaohs, like the rulers of the Great Lakes kingdoms of East Africa, ascended to their thrones with their sisters or cousins as co-rulers. In Bunyoro and Tooro kingdoms, the sister was called the Rubuga, but is currently called the Batebe. In Buganda kingdom, she was called the Lubuga, now called Nalinya. In Buganda, this custom from antiquity of having female co-heirs is still practised in all cultural succession events. Royal drums. Secondly, in all the Great Lakes kingdoms, ceremonies were carried out at certain intervals to welcome the appearance of the new moon. Regalia such as the royal drums and twin objects were brought out on these occasions to pray for the wellbeing of the kingdoms as was done in the courts of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs.

Bows and arrows. 

Another custom of the pharaohs in common with the kings of Great Lakes kingdoms were the use of bows and arrows in the coronation ceremonies. The coronation rituals of the pharaohs were repeated in the Sed festivals of the pharaohs, a record of which has been kept by historians. A description of the bow and arrow part of the coronation section reads: “Next, the pharaoh was carried to the chapels of the gods Horus and Seth, where he was handed a bow and arrows with which he shot an arrow in each of the four directions” i.e. East, West, North and South.

In Bunyoro. 

An identical ceremony was enacted during the coronation of the Omukama of Bunyoro Kingdom. In his book: Abakama Ba Bunyoro Kitara, published in 1947, John William Nyakatura, a historian and a county chief of Bunyoro Kingdom, recorded the following ceremony for the new king: “Then the king was handed bows and arrows. He shot four arrows in all directions- one arrow was shot in the direction where the sun rises (Buganda and Busoga), the second one was shot in the direction where the sun sets, the third one in the southward direction (Nkore and Rwanda), the fourth one was shot in the northward direction (Bukedi and other countries). 

In Buganda. 

Buganda Kingdom in precolonial times also had a bow and arrow coronation ceremony as part and parcel of the enthronement rituals of the kings. In fact, the one of Buganda was deadly. A captive would be shot with an arrow by the new Kabaka to indicate that he would be vigorous in protecting his kingdom. The victim would then be killed by the king’s guards thereafter.

Musical instruments. 

The similarities between ancient Egypt and the Great Lakes also extended to the material culture. Scholars have noted the resemblance of the musical instrument in ancient Egypt and the kingdoms of the Great Lakes, notably the bow- harps and flutes. This fact is mentioned in the display of Ugandan bow harps at the Uganda Museum.

The plank sewn canoes on Lake Victoria used in precolonial times were bound together using vegetative materials and were assembled in a similar way to the boats used by the ancient Egyptians on the Nile. This similarity was noticed by the scholars when British rule was established in East Africa.

Civilisation. 

In the 19th Century, explorers and anthropologists encountered the Great Lakes kingdoms and noted the unexpected sophistication of the societies in these kingdoms. It was assumed that Egyptian culture had influenced the culture of the Great Lakes region. In the actual fact, the direction of influence was the other way round. The anthropologists were observing a society similar to one out of which the ancient Egyptian civilisation had emerged.

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Musoga man seeks Muhoozi’s permission to marry Ankole lover – Ekyooto Uganda

Musoga man seeks Muhoozi’s permission to marry Ankole lover – Ekyooto Uganda

A man from Busoga kingdom has officially penned down a letter seeking acknowledgement and accreditation by the first son, Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba to grant him permission to marry his Munyankole lover. SEE ALSO: Bobi Wine: Muhoozi just woke up from his drunken stupor Isabirye Mpoma from Walukuba, Masese in Jinja wrote a letter to SFC Commander and First Son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba seeking…