*The need for Ugandans to reflect on Kangai. – The Place where Omukama chwa II Kabaleega was Captured*
By Jonathan Akweteireho
Setting is the hot bright sun causing glitters on the two cows grazing next to the spot where Bunyoro’s all time Omukama Kabalega was humiliated and captured by the bloodthirsty British colonialists helped by their Baganda collaborators.
A handful of grass thatched huts gaze at the monument, the winds shake the huge mango trees in the nearby. It is 6:01pm, there’s no one at the health centre II whose roof is seen a few meters away. Being a festive season, there’s silence at the grinding Mill that neigbours the makeshift Kabalega market,which is a few dry sticks standing,virtually just space, where people meet every Thursday to buy and sell their goods, all in memory of the great Kings; Kabalega of Bunyoro and Mwanga of Buganda,whose “monuments of capture” are about 300meters a part separated by a road. This is in Dokolo district, Lango region.
It’s 30th December 2020, I’m here by coincidence following a car breakdown.
On the way to Dokolo district for his campaigns,FDC presidential flagbearer Eng Patrick Amuria’s cars swirl the dust a few kilometers past the spot, Uganda’s most important one,where we finally lost power,starting a journey that crafts us into mordern democracy, which isn’t African, for we truly are years back effecting this imposition.
The political gears we go through every five years need to be reflected on Kangai, where, we would visit and pray for the country. For what we are going through politically,I took a moment to pray for my country.
Kangai needs to be made special because it surely is.
And the residents’ demand for a university in memory is just fitting.
However, such a school needs to be purely on African studies, African nationalism,family life,African culture and things of that nature.
In the current political contests, tribal and religious sentiments are rife, a danger for everyone, a huge
