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)
Modern Kampala
skyline
the stadium
school girls
government buildings
school children on the way home
high rise buildings downtown
