Mutesa's Village

Animals Elephants Source of the Nile Jinja Murchison Falls Mutesa's Village QE  II Park Ruwenzori mountains

Mutesa's Village

in the Kingdom of Buganda

present day

Kampala, Uganda

 

Mutesa's compound

 

now the burial site of the kabaka's
(swords and shields of Mutesa I)

The first Europeans to visit Uganda were the British explorers John Hanning Speke and James Grant when they were searching for the source of the Nile in 1862. They were followed by Samuel White Baker and Charles George Gordon commanding Egyptian troops. The Anglo-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley, welcomed by Kabaka Mutesa I (reigned 1852-1884), reported the king's eagerness to understand Christianity. Soon both Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries were working in Buganda. Within a decade the factions they created caused a civil war.

 

other burials

 

entrance to grave sites
(note Lamp given by Queen Victoria)

 

ribbing in the ceiling depicts the number of tribes

 

top ribbing over inner structure

 

royal drums

 

Portuguese cannon
(gift to the Kabaka)

 

huts for the wives around the compound

 

compound entrance
(low overhead so all have to stoop)

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Modern Kampala

 

skyline

 

the stadium

 

school girls

 

government buildings

 

school children on the way home

 

high rise buildings downtown

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Animals Elephants Source of the Nile Jinja Murchison Falls Mutesa's Village QE  II Park Ruwenzori mountains

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