Bunyoro official raps Banyankole on kingship
AN official of the Bunyoro kingdom has criticised the Banyankole for failing to advocate for the restoration of their kingdom.
By Fred Kayizzi
AN official of the Bunyoro kingdom has criticised the Banyankole for failing to advocate for the restoration of their kingdom.
Yolamu Nsamba, the principal private secretary to Bunyoro’s Omukama, said the complacency of the Banyankole would keep them ignorant of their cultural heritage.
Nsamba, who was closing a workshop for journalists at Kolping Hotel in Hoima last week, asked the Banyankole to re-activate their demand for a kingdom, saying, “cultural institutions are a preserve of Africa’s rich heritage.â€
He said the rejection of Ankole’s monarchy was spearheaded by the elite class whom he said had been “brain-washed through colonial educationâ€.
When the NRM government restored monarchies in the early 1990s, the Banyakole disagreed on whether to have their kingdom back. The monarchists there, however, consider Prince John Barigye, their traditional leader.
Nsamba, who referred to himself as an African nationalist, said: “Those in the academia should get away from the hang-ups of a colonial education into which we have been stuck for long.
“It is high time we accepted our status. We have been maligned in the world of scholarship that before the Europeans came here, we were monkeys jumping in the trees. But I want to assure you that we have never been primitive as these people think.â€
Nsamba’s emphasis on the academia was taken as a veiled reference to a Makerere University lecturer of Mass Communication, Adolf Mbaine, an Ankole, who was also present at the function.
Nsamba said kingdoms were a reminder of Africa’s long history and cited Bunyoro as a preserver of rich African values and heritage.
He noted that the Banyoro were producing copper, zinc, bronze and iron weapons, 4,000 years ago when the Anglo-Saxons were using stones to fight the Romans.
The workshop organised by Mid-Western Journalists Association, tackled reporting in local governments.
AN official of the Bunyoro kingdom has criticised the Banyankole for failing to advocate for the restoration of their kingdom.
Yolamu Nsamba, the principal private secretary to Bunyoro’s Omukama, said the complacency of the Banyankole would keep them ignorant of their cultural heritage.
Nsamba, who was closing a workshop for journalists at Kolping Hotel in Hoima last week, asked the Banyankole to re-activate their demand for a kingdom, saying, “cultural institutions are a preserve of Africa’s rich heritage.â€
He said the rejection of Ankole’s monarchy was spearheaded by the elite class whom he said had been “brain-washed through colonial educationâ€.
When the NRM government restored monarchies in the early 1990s, the Banyakole disagreed on whether to have their kingdom back. The monarchists there, however, consider Prince John Barigye, their traditional leader.
Nsamba, who referred to himself as an African nationalist, said: “Those in the academia should get away from the hang-ups of a colonial education into which we have been stuck for long.
“It is high time we accepted our status. We have been maligned in the world of scholarship that before the Europeans came here, we were monkeys jumping in the trees. But I want to assure you that we have never been primitive as these people think.â€
Nsamba’s emphasis on the academia was taken as a veiled reference to a Makerere University lecturer of Mass Communication, Adolf Mbaine, an Ankole, who was also present at the function.
Nsamba said kingdoms were a reminder of Africa’s long history and cited Bunyoro as a preserver of rich African values and heritage.
He noted that the Banyoro were producing copper, zinc, bronze and iron weapons, 4,000 years ago when the Anglo-Saxons were using stones to fight the Romans.
The workshop organised by Mid-Western Journalists Association, tackled reporting in local governments.