Name Sake
Just for the sake of clarification, the writing that Abbey Ssemuwemba has
posted is a very old writing, what he has done is to get the original story
that was documented in a book about Acholis and how they believed that Acholi
is a country in Africa and he switched it to read Buganda/Baganda. With time I
will post the book in which the stories of Acholis was documented by a
journalist that was covering Ugandan refugees arriving in Kenya particularly
after the death of Bishop Luwum and the two ministers. But in brief, it is
about an Acholi in 1978 who was given an opportunity in Nairobi to go to the
USA after fleeing Uganda. He was invited to the US embassy for an interview and
asked about his nationality in the visa application form. He stated that he was
from Acholi instead of Uganda. The embassy official was puzzled as he had never
heard of a country called Acholi, but knew of a tribe fleeing from Amin in
Uganda. The man insisted he was an Acholi and since he was not carrying an
Acholi passport, but Ugandan, he was denied entry to the US and lost his
scholarship. This story was in many embassy circles in Nairobi. There is a
cause of our fear about Acholis for from get go many of their kids were brought
up thinking that Acholi is a country, and these are the people who want to rule
us, and you wonder why Uganda is the way it is today because they ruled twice
before handing it over to a Rwandese and then asking Lakwena and Konny to
reclaim it back.
With time I will post the source of the original writing that Abbey has twisted
to read Buganda and Baganda.
EM
On the 49th
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of edward pojim
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 7:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {UAH} BUGANDA NATIONALISM EXPLAINED(Hilarious, funny, damn right):
Abbey;
Thanks for sharing. Now, my support for federalism has sunk even lower!
Pojim
From: Abbey Semuwemba <[email protected]>
To: ugandans-at-heart <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:52 PM
Subject: {UAH} BUGANDA NATIONALISM EXPLAINED(Hilarious, funny, damn right):
BUGANDA NATIONALISM EXPLAINED(Hilarious, funny, damn right): In a busy
Ugandan-owned cafe near Salabed shop in north London, a Buganda tourist called
Mp Bakireke Nambooze is sitting alone, enjoying a cup of tea with samosa.
Another tourist approaches:
May I sit here,madam?
BETI:No problem.
Thank you, very nice...
BETI:Are you on vacation?
Yes, I arrived yesterday.
BETI:What country are you from?
Norway. You?
BETI:From Buganda.
Buganda? I don't know Buganda...
BETI:Buganda..... near Lake Victoria, next to Jinja, with Kampala as its capital
No, I don't know these places.
BETI:Never mind then, I'm from Uganda.
Ah! Uganda! Uganda I know! So why you tell me you come from Buganda?
BETI:Because, my first country is Buganda!
Oh, you were born in Buganda and immigrated to Uganda?
BETI: No, no, I was born in Buganda and I stayed in Buganda.
Oh, then your father is from Uganda?
BETI: No, no, my father, my mother, my wife, my dog, everybody, they come from
Buganda.
So why you say Uganda?
BETI: For Christ sake, because you say you don't know where is Buganda!
OK, but if you say you not know Norway, I not say that my country is Japan.
BETI: Shit! Uganda isn't Japan. Uganda, it's my country.
Oh, your country not Buganda anymore?
BETI: My country is Buganda. But my country, it can be Uganda, too, if the
person I'm speaking to not know where is Buganda, Toyina magezi!
I don't understand.
BETI:Look, it's simple: I come from the kingdom of Buganda, in the country of
Uganda.
Ok! But I didn't ask you what Kingdom you're from; I ask you what Country
you're from. Me, I come from Lofoten region in Norway, but I answer you Norway
when you ask me what country I come from.
BETI: I know, I'm not stupid, Gundi gwe! But me, when they ask me what country
I come from, I answer Buganda. Even if it's the name of my Kingdom. For me,
it's my Country.
Oh, now I understand. You are a separatist, you want your Buganda kingdom to be
your country.
BETI: Are you crazy, Hostie? I don't want to know nothing from that shit!
I do not understand anything anymore!
BETI: I tell you before, it's simple! You ask me what country I come from, I
answered Buganda because Buganda is my country, but I don't really want it to
be my country, it would be too much trouble. I just want to say it. So, why
don't you just let me say it?
I'm all mixed up. You have passport from what country: Buganda or Uganda?
BETI: UGANDA, Hostie!
So why you not tell me Uganda right away?
BETI: Because it don't feel right. For me, Uganda is Museveni, his brother, his
wife, his son, his in-laws, teargas, corruption, power black outs, getting rid
of elected mayors, e.t.c............, it's not my home all that.......Home,
it's Sabasajja Kabaka; Luganda as language, cultured women whom Kenyans also
fancy; beautiful weather; Matooke; Wasuzze otya; Matugunda,;
Mapela,................ Do you
understand that?
Less and less...
BETI: Listen, forget all that shit. Ask me another question.
Ok, what town you come from?
BETI: Mmm... I don't know anymore!
You not know what town you come from?
BETI: Yes, yes, I know what town I come from, but my town it merged with
another town because of Museveni’s stupid ''town twinning'' policies, but soon
it is going to demerge from the town that was supposed to be my town.
Oh, that very complicated! When you write your address, what do you write?
BETI: I don't know anymore. Before, I used to write Kayunga, but Kayunga
changed to Kayunga-Kangulumira, but they tell us to wait 3 years before
stopping to write Kayunga to not mix up the mailman. But now, the Liberals they
pass a law that make it okay for Kangulumira-Kayunga to be Kayunga again, but I
don't know if we have to wait 3 years to be able to write Kayunga, or when the
3 years are passed, if we have to write Kayunga-Kangulumira for 3 years, and
after we write Kayunga. Unless, of course, the NRM stay in power and we remerge
with Kangulumira, then we'll have to write Kayunga-Kangulumira for 3 years.
I'll leave now; I my head hurts.
BETI: It's so simple, musilugwe: My town is Kayunga, my country is Buganda. But
if you prefer, my town is Kayunga-Kangulumira and my country is Uganda.
OK, I think I understand!
BETI: It's about time. Anyway, it was fun talking to you, if you come around
where I live; maybe you come and see me.
OK, but where? Kayunga in Buganda or Kayunga-Kangulumira in Uganda?
BETI: You're a pain in the ass. Forget the whole thing.
That, my friends, is the most accurate portrait of Buganda Nationalism that you
will ever get! Awangale Ssabasajja!
--
Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba
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never condense[d] into a single branch of government." - Judge Anna Diggs
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