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DJ Erycom, one of Uganda's legendary Deejays was the first deejay to play, promote and popularize Kadongokamu music across bars and happening places in and outside Uganda. About the same time, technology in audio production had enabled the genre to be reproduced digitally using Audio Workstations and the "band" element had all but disappeared.
Masagazi is considered by many to be the father of kadongo kamu. His brand of educative singing won him many fans and he was one of the few musicians who was involved with Uganda's independence in 1962. Elly Wamala was another of the founders. Elly Wamala is credited with the invention of this genre but abandoned it because it was constantly ...
MUGULA 1 was first established in 1996 [1] as a safe haven for South Sudanese fleeing war in their country, most of whom were women and children. The refugee influx worsened due to prolonged years of war in Sudan for independence of the African south from the predominantly Arab north. [2]
The word came from Luganda language e ntebe which means 'seat' / 'chair'. Entebbe was a cultural site for the Mamba clan and it was called "entebbe za Mugula" - Mugula was the title of a chief of a subdivision of the Mamba clan - and is now the location of the official office and residence of the President of Uganda, as it was for British governors before independence.
The creation myth of the people of Buganda, Uganda, includes a figure called Kintu, [1] who was the first person on earth, and the first man to wander the plains of Uganda alone. He has also sometimes been known as God, or the father of all people who created the first kingdoms. [2]
Nambi is seen in The Quest for Kintu and the Search for Peace: Mythology and Morality in Nineteenth-Century Buganda, [2] alongside her husband Kintu. It is said in this journal that in Nineteenth-century Buganda, political leaders tried to unite back the kingdom by re-telling the creation myth and reminding those living in Buganda of where their constitutional and social roots come from.
The Baganda [3] (endonym: Baganda; singular Muganda) also called Waganda, are a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda.Traditionally composed of 52 clans (although since a 1993 survey, only 46 are officially recognised), the Baganda are the largest people of the Bantu ethnic group in Uganda, comprising 16.5 percent of the population at the time of the 2014 ...
Buganda is a traditional kingdom in modern-day Uganda located in the central region of the East African country. The current Katikkiro is Mr. Charles Peter Mayiga of the Mutima clan and was appointed by the current monarch, the Kabaka of Buganda , Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda in May 2013, replacing Engineer John Baptist Walusimbi .