THE EMPIRE THAT WAS


The Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara is the remainder of a once powerful empire of Kitara. At the high of its glory, the empire included present day Masindi, Hoima, Kibaale, Kabarole and Kasese districts; also parts of present day Western Kenya, Northern Tanzania and Eastern Congo. That Bunyoro-Kitara is only a skeleton of what it used to be is an absolute truth to which History can testify.
One may ask how a mighty empire, like Kitara, became whittled away to the present under populated and underdeveloped kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara. This is the result of many years of orchestrated, intentional and malicious marginalization, dating back to the early colonial days. The people of Bunyoro, under the reign of the mighty Omukama Chwa II. Kabalega, resisted colonial domination. Kabalega, and his well-trained army of "Abaruusura" (soldiers), put his own life on the line by mounting a fierce, bloody resistance against the powers of colonialisation. On April 9th, 1899, Kabalega was captured by the invading colonial forces and was sent into exile on the Seychelles Islands.
With the capture of Kabalega, the Banyoro were left in a weakened military, social and economic state, from which they have never fully recovered. Colonial persecution of the Banyoro did not stop at Kabalega's ignominious capture and exile. Acts of systematic genocide continued to be carried out against the Banyoro, by the colonialists and other foreign invaders.[/center]
Colonial efforts to reduce Bunyoro to a non-entity were numerous, and continued over a long period of time. They included invasions where masses were massacred; depopulating large tracts of fertile land and setting them aside as game reserves; enforcing the growing of crops like tobacco and cotton at the expense of food crops; sanctioning looting and pillaging of villages by invading forces, importation killer diseases like syphilis that grew to epidemic proportions; and the list goes on.




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Christianity has no future in Africa. None. Get out! Christianity will die out as soon as we provide economic infrastructure for every man, woman and child in West Africa. When Oyo Empire's supremacy is questioned no more!


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