{UAH} WE SHOULD DOCUMENT OUR HISTORY
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WE SHOULD DOCUMENT OUR HISTORY
Last week, l have been watching documentaries on post independence Kenya, where they interviews living contemporaries of the late Jomo Kenyatta, Sir Daniel arab Toroitich Moi, and it seems that they have gone ahead over us and probably the rest of East Africa.
As we mark Tarehe Sita or UPDF day, tomorrow to mark 37th anniversary of the attack on Kabamba School of Infantry that spear headed the five year liberation war in the bushes of Luwero Triangle, it is high time, we vigorously document our history.
Militarywise, although there were no history of standing armies in pre colonial Uganda even in centralized kingdoms of Kitara, Bunyoro, Buganda, Nkore, Tooro etc...and acaphalous ones like Acholi, Lango or Teso, the nation in arms system was better, because it emphasized a spirit of people's army, which NRA now UPDF has built.
In later years, Omukama John Kabalega built a standing army, called Abarusura and Kabaka Daniel Basammula Mwanga also built a standing army/Ekitongole Ekijaasi, despite warnings that his predecessors never did so. His father had only started Ekitongole Ekigoowa/ A brass band for parading purposes copying it from Egyptian/Sudanese one.
While Abarusura made many achievements including reconquering areas that Bunyoro had lost to Buganda like Mubende, Buluuli and Bulongdoganyi/Baale, and also reclaimed Tooro, it was very popular both at home in Bunyoro proper for brutality and even in conquered areas like in Rwenzori mountains of the moon, where it sowed seeds of ethnic discontent up to today.
As for Abajaasi, they overhrew Mwanga three times in coups, one jointly executited by Chritians and Muslims and imposed his brother Kiweewa Mutebi, and later Nuuhu Kalema, as Muslims deposed Kiweewa and Christians, and they sought refuge in Kabula then in Nkore, joined forces with Mwanga and traditionalists and dsrove Kalema and Muslims to Kijungute in Singo on boarder with Bunyoro. Second time Pritestants led by Apollo Kaggwa drove Mwanga and the Catholics from the capital to Bulingugwe Island. The third time, Mwanga who had become a figure head, run to Bukumbi in present day Tanzania and then Buddu where he mobilized a force that was defeated at Kabuwoko and crossed to Katonda river at Nanzigombe in Mawogola to Mubende and joined forces with Kabalega in Bunyoro and they were captured in Lango and exiled to Seychelles Islands.
That marked the end of our indigenous armies and the beginning of foreign occupants starting with IBEA under Capt.Lugard which he inherited from the Sudanese or Nubians under Sir Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon and Emin Pasha, that had camped at Fatiko near Gulu, then the King's African Rifles that was mobilized especially during first and second world wars covering the whole of East Africa, both armies were used to supress any African resistance.
Then towards, during and after independence, East Africa Rifles, Uganda Rifles, Uganda Army and Uganda Air Force after 1964 mutiny, and later Uganda Marines, all combined defeated by Tanzania People;s Defence Forces and Ugandan exiles in 1979, then UNLA a old wine in new bottles, and of course NRA now UPDF.
Happy Tarehe Sita, where national cerebrations are scheduled at Butaleja District, where the rest of East Africa Community member states armies have joined UPDF in special services to wanainchi.
-- Last week, l have been watching documentaries on post independence Kenya, where they interviews living contemporaries of the late Jomo Kenyatta, Sir Daniel arab Toroitich Moi, and it seems that they have gone ahead over us and probably the rest of East Africa.
As we mark Tarehe Sita or UPDF day, tomorrow to mark 37th anniversary of the attack on Kabamba School of Infantry that spear headed the five year liberation war in the bushes of Luwero Triangle, it is high time, we vigorously document our history.
Militarywise, although there were no history of standing armies in pre colonial Uganda even in centralized kingdoms of Kitara, Bunyoro, Buganda, Nkore, Tooro etc...and acaphalous ones like Acholi, Lango or Teso, the nation in arms system was better, because it emphasized a spirit of people's army, which NRA now UPDF has built.
In later years, Omukama John Kabalega built a standing army, called Abarusura and Kabaka Daniel Basammula Mwanga also built a standing army/Ekitongole Ekijaasi, despite warnings that his predecessors never did so. His father had only started Ekitongole Ekigoowa/ A brass band for parading purposes copying it from Egyptian/Sudanese one.
While Abarusura made many achievements including reconquering areas that Bunyoro had lost to Buganda like Mubende, Buluuli and Bulongdoganyi/Baale, and also reclaimed Tooro, it was very popular both at home in Bunyoro proper for brutality and even in conquered areas like in Rwenzori mountains of the moon, where it sowed seeds of ethnic discontent up to today.
As for Abajaasi, they overhrew Mwanga three times in coups, one jointly executited by Chritians and Muslims and imposed his brother Kiweewa Mutebi, and later Nuuhu Kalema, as Muslims deposed Kiweewa and Christians, and they sought refuge in Kabula then in Nkore, joined forces with Mwanga and traditionalists and dsrove Kalema and Muslims to Kijungute in Singo on boarder with Bunyoro. Second time Pritestants led by Apollo Kaggwa drove Mwanga and the Catholics from the capital to Bulingugwe Island. The third time, Mwanga who had become a figure head, run to Bukumbi in present day Tanzania and then Buddu where he mobilized a force that was defeated at Kabuwoko and crossed to Katonda river at Nanzigombe in Mawogola to Mubende and joined forces with Kabalega in Bunyoro and they were captured in Lango and exiled to Seychelles Islands.
That marked the end of our indigenous armies and the beginning of foreign occupants starting with IBEA under Capt.Lugard which he inherited from the Sudanese or Nubians under Sir Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon and Emin Pasha, that had camped at Fatiko near Gulu, then the King's African Rifles that was mobilized especially during first and second world wars covering the whole of East Africa, both armies were used to supress any African resistance.
Then towards, during and after independence, East Africa Rifles, Uganda Rifles, Uganda Army and Uganda Air Force after 1964 mutiny, and later Uganda Marines, all combined defeated by Tanzania People;s Defence Forces and Ugandan exiles in 1979, then UNLA a old wine in new bottles, and of course NRA now UPDF.
Happy Tarehe Sita, where national cerebrations are scheduled at Butaleja District, where the rest of East Africa Community member states armies have joined UPDF in special services to wanainchi.
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