There is a theory from UG that baba kamwana is a descendant of the Kabalega’s. His first state visit to UG and his scheduled address to Ugandan parliament has oiled this narrative. In short, man UK is doing an Obama in UG. How true is this?
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/641600-could-kenya-s-president-uhuru-be-our-grandson.html
By Kalungi Kabuye
It was an innocuous story published in the inside pages of New Visionon Tuesday, about the Omukama of Bunyoro, Solomon Gafabusa Iguru, congratulating the new president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, on his election.In the message the Omukama cited the old cordial relations between Bunyoro and Kenya and recalled how the late Jomo Kenyatta often visited the Omukama’s father, the late Sir Tito Winyi.
Nothing really world-shaking, and definitely nothing new, but soon it was all over the social media, and Ugandans were talking about ‘Iguru congratulating his cousin’. Ugandan bloggers were all over it too, while the Kenyans dismissed it outright as a rehashing of an old fairy tale.
The theory that the first president of Kenya was a son of the Omukama Kabalega (right) of Bunyoro-Kitara has long been the love and rage of conspiracy theorists, and the remarkable resemblance between Kabalega and Jomo Kenyatta has continuously fuelled them.Uhuru Kenyatta’s ascendancy to the president of Kenya has again brought them forth, but is there any truth or evidence to these theories? No real facts have been established, but a lot of circumstantial evidence exists, so much that this might never really be put to rest.
(L-R) Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and the Late Omukama Sir Tito Winyi, father to Iguru, used to host himBut the speculations still persist. A guide to the Seychelles, where Kabalega was to spend 24 years in exile, mentions that ‘Kabalega was a father to a prominent politician in the region’.
The facts
*Kabalega and Mwanga were captured in the plains of Lango in 1899 by a combination of British and Buganda troops, and Kabalega was shot in the right arm.They were then matched into exile after that. What is known is that they spent some time in Kenya before being moved first to Kismayu in Somalia and then onto the Seychelles, because of interference from ‘malcontents’ in Uganda.
*The two kings were under constant guard by the British, and apparently several attempts to rescue the two were made. Their minders kept up a constant update of their progress to the Colonial Administration in the form of dispatches.
*Dispatches to the foreign office covering the journey from Uganda ones are from Kismayu as the two embark onto the journey to the Seychelles. Although the dispatches were listed on the catalogue of the Kenya Government Archives, the actual documents were not there when we last checked.
*Available colonial records indicate that the wounded Kabalega was given a ‘Kikuyu nurse’ to take care of him when the two kings stopped at a place named as ‘Kikuyu’.
The speculations
Uncorroborated reports have it that the Kikuyu nurse got pregnant, but the fact was kept secret from the British.
There are different reports of the date of Kenyatta’s birth and time and place of his birth. But historians agree that he was born Kamau Ngengi in a place called Ngenda between 1897 and 1901, about the same time Kabalega is said to have lived in Kenya on a two-year sojourn.
It is also agreed by historians that Kenyatta’s father died when he was young and his mother subsequently remarried. But she is said to have gone back to her parent’s home further north, where she died.
He was baptized in Johnstone Kamau in August 1914, but later adopted the name Jomo (Kikuyu for burning spear) Kenyatta (from the waist bead belt worn by natives then).
Kingdom sources adamant
Bunyoro Kingdom sources refused to answer any questions pertaining to Kabalega and Kenyatta, or why the Omukama had congratulated Uhuru Kenyatta. About the Jomo Kenyatta visits to Bunyoro, they said it was ‘normal’. When asked if Uhuru has visited the kingdom, they said ‘not yet’.
So, will this mystery ever be solved? A detailed study of the colonial dispatches covering the journey of the two kings from Uganda to Kenya would definitely give an account of what really happened, and there is some indication that Bunyoro Kingdom offi cials have actually done this, and know the story.
The debate
[ATTACH=full]11674[/ATTACH] alleged jomos dad
Hio hekaya inakaa true ukiongeza evidence.
en nowadays, x-ray evidence is also acceptable:)
I was first told that jomo was a son of ugandan chief in the year 2007 and dismissed it as hekaya. This story has been there for some time, what happened to kabalega in seychelles?
That’s a puzzle that has not yet been answered. If only our ancestors knew how to read and write. We would be able to trace our roots mpaka huko congo forest.
Kenyatta obviously has royal blood.
The mysticism around Kenyatta is something else. Coasterians claim him. I listened as a coasterian “convinced” that Kenyatta was a coasterian hence his love for Mombasa where he died and kamwana rushing to Mombasa after getting evidens ya kalatas ati he is the pork. But then he said how come Kenyatta was fluent in Swahili at that age unless he had been deeply exposed. Then a kale comes along and says Jomo’s mum was once married to an Kale but they divorced when she was heavy with Jomo. Then a maasai comes along with a laibon story now this UG story. sasa nangoja ya wasomali
The UG story has meat on it. The rest hapana.
by the way, I was surprised by this Ugandan who was telling me about kikuyu potatoes/sweet potatoes nikashindwa how does a Ugandan know of Kikuyus and their love for warus.
Anyway, me what I know is that Jomo Kenyatta’s father was said to have been a Masai. During the Masai’s civil war, Kikuyus took in many masai refugees and assimilated them into the community. Kikuyus from Kabete where Jomo Kenyatta originated from are said to be of mixed blood between Kikuyus & Masais.
I don’t buy that story ya Congo forest hio ni vako
Dorobo yule wa Klost also claimed that Ngengi or something (Kenyatta’s dad) was originally from Murang’a before settling huko Kiambu blablabla. Can’t remember the details. Anyway, I think royalty is overrated and a man must define his own destiny.
so you wanna say am maasai,
its alright, now be gd and tell me Meria Mata in Maasai, i gotta change my handle
kumbe hata mimi ni maasai?
Nitaenda Kibiku kutafuta roots zangu from there. Siezi kua Maasai wa kitengela
naona kama mimi ni wa ndeiya
@purr 27 ni wa Matasia