African culture

Nambi prepared to leave her home in heaven to go down to Buganda to live with kintu whom she loved. But before leaving her   father   called her. Remember, he said, that there are no crops and no animals to tame on earth. Take as many as you can and leave quickly and quiet   and do not let your brother   Walumbe “ angel of death”   see you he will want to go with you and if he goes with it will be worse for you. So Nambi collected cows, sheep, chickens and everything she wanted for survival on earth and left the heaven by a secret path silently as shadows. As they reached the gate of heaven, Nambi remembered she had forgotten millet to feed her chickens. So she left kintu and ran back to fetch it. But on the way she met her brother Walumbe “angel of death” who asked her where she was going. At first she refused to speak to him but at last she broke down the secret and told him everything. In the end Walumbe followed them on earth. Kintu and Nambi built a house and raised their c

NTE CLAN Totem : Ente | etalina mukira Akabbiro : Nnnggaali Clan Leader : Katongole Estates : Mulema Ssaza : Buddu Omubala | Clan motto : Ekyuma nkiridde n’omukimba ngulidde. ORIGIN OF NTE CLAN  Katongole was from bunyoro, he had tailless cow . His leaving was a result of persecution from the king of Bunyoro who married his sister and unfortunately gave birth to an albino (namagoye). The king’s fortune-tellers advised him to kill the child, its mother and Katongole so as to end the cursed linage. Rumors reached Katoongole in time and he organized all members of his family to leave immediately. He hid in a forest called Teero near Lake Nnalubaale (Lake Victoria) through Mawokota. He later moved to Bijja, the present day Biikira where his sons Nakaana, Lukyamuzi and Lwegaba left to go to Mulema. They settled there but despite their effort to bring their father and join them in their lucrative smith activities, Katongole refused and remained in Mulema Katongole suddenly fell ill of K

Totem:                             Ensenene Akabbiro:                        Nabangogoma Clan Leader / owakasolya: Mugalula Estates:                             Kisozi Ssaza:                              Ggomba Omubala /  Clan motto: (i) Byaja ne bigwa.                                                 (ii) Ggwe mpagi, ggwe luwaga.                                                 (iii) Nakimera muka Ssuuna bw’asa bwanegula. ORIGIN OF ENSENENE CLAN Nseenene clan God father was a herdsmen who lived around the slopes of Mugamba Hill in Busongola county in Tooro kingdom. Nseenene clan ancestry is Kiroboozi, the god father of the clan. Kiroboozi had many children, among them Buyonga, Kalibbala, and Nnandawula his daughter. When Kiroboozi died, his children experienced inheritance horror. Buyonga, Kalibbala and Nnandawula dispersed from  Busongola with their cattle to Bwera in Buddu county. From Bwera, they wandered to Ggomba county and settled in kakoni village, at Kakubansi

African culture: nkima clan / monkey clan : ORIGIN OF NKIMA / MONKEY CLAN The origin of the Monkey Clan depends on the determination of where Kintu, as the first King of Buganda, ...

ORIGIN OF NKIMA / MONKEY CLAN The origin of the Monkey Clan depends on the determination of where Kintu, as the first King of Buganda, came from . The origin of Kintu is heaven which renders the origin of the Monkey Clan to have been Buggala in Ssese Island. Monkey Clan was one of those people who had arrived in the country with Kintu. Balasi built a home in Malangala village in the county of Busujju. It is there that he got his son Bwoya.  Later Bwoya was appointed a Ssaabawaali chief, which is the chief in charge of the bachelor servants of the king. During his service as Ssaabawaali Bwoya got another son by the names of Mulegeya. Ssekabaka Kintu disappeared and is son Chwa I succeed him. Chwa I got a son by the name of Kalemeera.  Chwa I was scared of disappearing like his father Kintu did, he followed his son keeping watch over him wherever he went. Chwa I sent his son to bunnyoro, while In Bunyoro his uncle the king Winyi lodged Kalemeera with his Principal wife Wannya

Nkula - Akabbiro Obutiko Bunnassogolero Totem Enkula Akabbiro Obutiko Bunnassogolero Clan Leader/owakasolya Muwangi Clan headquarters Lwentunga State/ssaza Buddu Omubala/ Clan motto Wankula Ssimba ejjembe Wankula tatya, takyuuka.