{UAH} SSEMBABULE LOST BUKOMANSIMBI, KALUNGU AND LWENGO DISTRICTS

Ssembabule district which was the Kingdom of Bwera under Abamooli dynasty that broke away from Ababiito dynasty of the Kingdom of Bunyoro boarders at its peak included present day Ssembabule, Bukomansimbi, Kalungu and Lwengo districts (An interview by the researcher with the then Omutaka Muntu Frank Museveni that was published in Ngabo wa Sande in January 1994). It is now made up of Ssembabule District that boarders with Bukomansimbi district in the East, Lwengo and Lyantonde districts in the north, Kyegegwa and Mubende districts in the west and Gomba district in the north (Uganda districts information handbook, 1998). It measures 2234 sq. km with a population of 252,994 people (UBOS, 2014) whose early settlers were mainly soldiers, chiefs, evangelists and peasants. 

Ssembabule District is thus the Metropolitan of the kingdom of Bwera under Abamooli dynasty, a break away group from Ababiito dynasty of the kingdom of Bunyoro. History has it that Bwera was founded by Kiheesi, who is said to have been given a war drum of water back called Lusama which was said to have been the drum of Ndahura, the first Muchwezi king of Bunyoro-Kitara Empire. (M. Ponanky in Uganda Journal, 33, 2 (1969) PP 125 - 150. Bwera is said to have remained quasi independent through out the 19^th century as had been stipulated by Lugard in1892. It was incorporated into Buganda in 1899 and confirmed as such in 1900 Uganda Agreement. Kabaka Junju is said to have tried to conquer Bwera (around 1797) but failed and to which his brother Ssemakookiro took flight. He is supposed to have rewarded one of the Bannabwera called Kahera (Kyera) by giving him the district of Bulondoganyi (Bugerere) in Kyaggwe, where his successors remained as cattle keeping people. Kabaka Mwanga in 1896 also took refuge in vicinity of Bigo (All contained in historical files collected by Masaka District Administration from 1908-1962, now deposited with Makerere University College Library). Bwera remained unsettled until 1900 when it was incorporated in Buganda by Uganda Agreement and the events leading up to its absorption are worth to note as E.G. Lanning:1954: 28) documents.

 

 

 

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