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Kampala is home to the City Oilers, one of East Africa's top basketball club teams. It is the only East African team that competes in the FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup. The Oilers play their home games in the MTN Arena, which is based in Kampala's Lugogo Area. [59] The city hosted the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2017.
1908 - Uganda Museum founded. 1910 - Goan Institute established. [1] 1911 - Kampala Club founded. [1] 1913 - Indian Association formed. [1] 1915 - Port Bell-Kampala railway begins operating. [4] 1917 - Kampala Public Library established. [1] 1921 - Central Council of Indian Associations of Uganda headquartered in Kampala. [1] 1922 Technical ...
Makerere (/ m ə ˈ k ɛr ər i / mə-KERR-ər-ee) [1] is a neighborhood in the city of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. The name also applies to the hill on which this neighborhood is perched; one of the original seven hills that constituted Kampala at the time of its founding, in the early 1900s.
When the city expanded to other neighbouring hills, the place began to be referred to as Old Kampala, a name that is still in use today, 120 years later. As of June 2014 [update] , the hill is a mixed commercial and residential neighbourhood with high-rise apartment complexes, shops, restaurants, bars, cafes, bed-and-breakfast establishments ...
The office of Mayor of Kampala was created in 1950 by the government of the Protectorate of Uganda, and headed the Kampala City Council. In 1998, the mayor was elected directly for the first time. The office of Mayor was elevated to Lord Mayor in 2011 by the newly established Kampala
The church was founded in 1984 in Kampala by Canadian missionaries Pastor Gary Skinner and his wife, Marylin. Initially, it operated out of Kampala's Imperial Hotel before the leadership took over a disused cinema which was renamed The Centre. [3] Today, Watoto occupies its own purpose-built campus in Kampala and earns £13.3 million a year. [4]
The affairs of the capital city of Kampala were brought under the direct supervision of the central Ugandan government. The city clerk, formerly the highest financial officer in the city, was replaced by the executive director, who is answerable to the Minister of Kampala Capital City Authority, currently Hajat Minsa Kabanda. [5]
His captors and the Baganda started calling the location and the hill "Kololo", resulting in its name today. [3] [4] Since the 1950s, before Uganda's Independence, Kololo has been an upscale residential area because of its central location in the city and to the views from the hill. Kololo is a popular location for diplomatic missions to Uganda ...