Kabalega was a great nationalist, committed no sin!

Oct 15, 2006

SIR — I don’t agree with your headline “Banyoro pay high price for Kabalega’s sins” in reference to Shane Doyle’s book Crisis and decline in Bunyoro.

SIR — I don’t agree with your headline “Banyoro pay high price for Kabalega’s sins” in reference to Shane Doyle’s book Crisis and decline in Bunyoro.
Every patriotic person in the country will agree with me that fighting for the independence of bunyoro was not a sin by the great nationalist.
Does it mean the fathers of the African nations in their struggle for independence in the 1950s and 60s committed sins?
The colonialists left a devastated Bunyoro, a trend that has clearly continued into the post-colonial era as evidenced by the way the region is grossly neglected. Now here comes oil and everyone is awake on the issues of Bunyoro!
everyone has now remembered it and is suddenly interested as opposed to the pre-oil era.
This is a shame.
The Banyoro were said to be “lazy and primitive”!
but what could they have done with no economic independence (land), proper education, health and infrastructure?
Banyoro should be firm. We shall “conquer or die”.

P. Kaahwa Abooki
Kampala

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