A group of Banyankore under the Banyakore Cultural Foundation (BCF) has signed a document rejecting a cultural institution for Ankole region.<\/p>\n
The two-page document, dated September 16, 2014 challenges the need for a cultural intuition, saying their people are not ready for the social subordinations that would come with having one.<\/p>\n
Since President Yoweri Museveni okayed the restoration of cultural institutions in 1993, many cultural intuitions have been restored, new ones created, and others still a work in progress.<\/p>\n
In Ankole, the Nkore Cultural Trust (NCT), led by William Katatumba, are agitating for the restoration of Obugabe bwa Ankole.<\/p>\n
However, BCF maintains that the Banyankore who have never had a monarchy since their history do not need one now.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Banyankore are currently tension free. So what is a need for a monarchy that is going to create tension?\u201d asked Mwambutsya Ndebesa, the secretary for research for the foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat just happened in the Rwenzori and the Busoga regions is testimony enough for the Banyankore to know what can happen in their region if they insist on having a monarchy,\u201d Ndebesa, also a lecturer of History at Makerere University, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who are agitating for the Obugabe want to create royals and subjects, not citizens \u2014 creating a system that will create social injustice. Culture is there to serve man. Not the other way round,\u201d Dr. Godfrey Asiimwe, the foundation\u2019s general secretary, said.<\/p>\n
The debate regarding Kingship in the western region of Uganda is not necessarily new.<\/p>\n
Kesi Nyakimwe, the foundation\u2019s chairman said since the white man\u2019s intervention in 1901, there have been sects agitating for creation of a monarchy among the Banyankore.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut they have always been defeated. Because we don\u2019t need a king. Culture does not necessarily mean having a monarchy,\u201d Nyakimwe said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever other people say, we, the Banyankore Cultural Foundation, reject the restoration of Obugabe bwa Ankole,\u201d Nyakimwe said while reading the document at Centenary Park in Kampala yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust like the Rwenzori and Busoga regions, Ankole region is socially and ethnically heterogeneous and has even a more clearly and sharply defined contested history,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ankole community is composed of a diversity of ethnic and sub-ethnic groups that include Banyankore, Bahororo, Banyaruguru, Batagwenda and Bakoki who are indigenous communities within the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is today a significant minority of Baganda, Bakiga, and Banyarwanda who migrated into the area; and another layer of social identity between the traditional cultivators and pastoralists \u2013 the so called Bairu and Bahima. Bringing a monarchy will only create chaos,\u201d Nyakimwe said.<\/p>\n
Following recent cultural tensions especially in the Busoga region and the Kasese, Bundibugyo and Ntoroko districts where over 90 people were killed in clashes, several minds, including political party UPC, have criticized President Yoweri Museveni\u2019s move to restore kingdoms in Uganda in 1993 after they had been banned by fallen President Milton Obote on grounds of sabotaging social cohesion and development in the country.<\/p>\n
By John Agaba, The New Vision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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