Above: Royal tomb of King Kabalega near Hoima in Uganda. Copyright Rupi Mangat
Published: The East African Nation media 25 April 2020
By Rupi Mangat
Powerful and progressive, Kabalega defended his kingdom against colonial onset
It was the taxi driver who announced, “The royal tomb of Kabalega is here.” He brought the car to a halting screech when he realized l was serious about seeing it.
At that point Kabalega was quite unknown to me. I was whiling away days in Masindi visiting friends. With time on my hands and no intention of doing Murchison Falls – for now dubbed as the most powerful waterfall in the world – which l had visited in 2017, l was following in my late grandmother’s steps to Hoima. She gave birth in each of the three East African countries with the last born in Hoima in the 1940s.
Hoima was only 60 kilometres further west of Masindi and another 20 to Lake Albert, one of the African great lakes in the rift.
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