It’s a pity Budonians hardly know anything about their school!
SIR — I am an Old Boy of Kings College Budo. One<br>thing which hurts me is the great ignorance among Budonians about their famous school.
SIR — I am an Old Boy of Kings College Budo. One
thing which hurts me is the great ignorance among Budonians about their famous school. Very few of us know how that school was started and who played key roles in sponsoring it. Many of us pass through Budo without finding out its origin. This is made worse by the fact that even at the school itself there is nothing the students can see and make them remember the people who were behind the establishment of Kings College Budo, with the exception of the Girls dormitories like Gustar, Grace and Sabaganzi. One day I asked one Old girl who stayed in Sabaganzi for a number of years whether she knew what Sabaganzi meant. She said she did not know! When I asked of the prominent Old boys what the Misizi trees near Sabaganzi dormitory represented, they could not tell me! I then asked somebody who used to play the organ in our chapel what was at the entrance of that chapel which was of religious significance historically to Uganda or what was in the windows of that chapel. He did not know anything about them.
Sir Apollo Kagwa was very instrumental in securing the land where the school was built . After visiting Cambridge University and Sherborn Girls School in England Kagwa came back with strong ideas in his mind to start similar institutions in Uganda. This was the beginning of Kings College Budo and Gayaza High School. Gayaza was started in 1905 and is the only school which named one dormitory after Sir Apollo Kagwa. Budo started a year later in 1906 because the Mengo Lukiiko was against building a school on the hill where Buganda kings are crowned. Apollo Kagwa cunningly convinced the members of the Lukiiko that the school they were going to build there was for the education of the kings — hence the name ‘Kings College’. Is Apollo Kagwa’s idea of the Cambridge of Uganda going to stop where the school has reached now or are there plans to aim higher?
George Kasede Mukasa
Mengo
thing which hurts me is the great ignorance among Budonians about their famous school. Very few of us know how that school was started and who played key roles in sponsoring it. Many of us pass through Budo without finding out its origin. This is made worse by the fact that even at the school itself there is nothing the students can see and make them remember the people who were behind the establishment of Kings College Budo, with the exception of the Girls dormitories like Gustar, Grace and Sabaganzi. One day I asked one Old girl who stayed in Sabaganzi for a number of years whether she knew what Sabaganzi meant. She said she did not know! When I asked of the prominent Old boys what the Misizi trees near Sabaganzi dormitory represented, they could not tell me! I then asked somebody who used to play the organ in our chapel what was at the entrance of that chapel which was of religious significance historically to Uganda or what was in the windows of that chapel. He did not know anything about them.
Sir Apollo Kagwa was very instrumental in securing the land where the school was built . After visiting Cambridge University and Sherborn Girls School in England Kagwa came back with strong ideas in his mind to start similar institutions in Uganda. This was the beginning of Kings College Budo and Gayaza High School. Gayaza was started in 1905 and is the only school which named one dormitory after Sir Apollo Kagwa. Budo started a year later in 1906 because the Mengo Lukiiko was against building a school on the hill where Buganda kings are crowned. Apollo Kagwa cunningly convinced the members of the Lukiiko that the school they were going to build there was for the education of the kings — hence the name ‘Kings College’. Is Apollo Kagwa’s idea of the Cambridge of Uganda going to stop where the school has reached now or are there plans to aim higher?
George Kasede Mukasa
Mengo