RUREKYERA GEOFREY

THE BANYANKORE IDIOMATIC WEALTH Did you know that Runyankore-Rukiga has got *idioms*? Here are 100 idioms that can make your usage of your local language richer.  1. Akaanya bwanya . In a very short time 2. * Akangara teete *. Living in hard conditions or sometimes it means having no shelter. 3. * Ekireenga bazaana*. The evening part of the day, when the sun is setting.  4. * Ow'omutima Mukye* . A person prone to falling into temptation, or someone with limited self-control.  5. *A mihiisa nyungu* a conversation that is meant just to pass time 6. * Amadinga dingiso* sweating uncontrollably 7. * Biguru byampitsi* doing something very fast, usually with no diligence 8. * Boote boote* a very old and frail 9. * Buguru butakora hansi* moving, running or walking very fast 10. * Buso bwa ntaama* head on collision. 11. * Bukyeire bwaizire*  now and then 12. * Eituumbi mahiihi* very early morning around 4AM 13. * Ekiita mukago* a fine paid for marrying a relati...

THE BANYANKOLE, A TRIBE FROM HEAVEN   The Banyankore are a Bantu group. They initially inhabited the districts of Mbarara, Bushenyi, and Ntungamo before the creation of other districts. They currently inhabit other districts like Buhweju, Ibanda, Kiruhura, Kazo, Isingiro and Mitooma in western Uganda. They are also found in other areas of Uganda due to inland migrations. People from the present counties of Rujumbura and Rubabo in Rukungiri District share the same culture, though they are politically considered under Kigezi.  Originally, Ankole was known as Kaaro- Karungi and the word Nkore is said to have been adopted during the 17th century following the devastating invasion of Kaaro-Karungi by Chawaali, the then Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara.  The word Ankole was introduced by British colonial administrators to describe the bigger kingdom which was formed by adding to the original Nkore, the former independent kingdoms of Igara, Sheema, Buhweju and parts of Mpor...

            THE VOICE When the architect of your foundation Sought for help,  He was signing a bond On which the posterity was to rejoice,  In his efforts ecstasy.    I still cry and clamour   For the tears we shed for the pain    Inflicted on you,  So we shed for the pain you inflict unto us  This unending weep is for you South Africa,    The once oppressed a people, quickly you forget the frontlines    Ecstatically it was when you claimed victory     Over the infamous apartheid animosity,      Castigating the swine-like Botha.   How shameful it is then,   That ‘You can lower a white statue of a dead man,  But never can slap a live one’ (Robert Mugabe) But angrily inflict pain on your next door neighbours-Africans, For they are foreigners. When my eyes see,  I see his ghost in protest, ...

 Uganda, was and is, in allusion to Winston Churchill, The Pearl of Africa' . However with the current systematic episodical political unfoldings, it is rather becoming "The Peril of Africa".  For let us face the reality, considering our black history, the Kaguta Constitution 1995, provided a good hatchet burying plan, and ensured the country went back to the right course. The 1994 constituency Assembly members(1994) were indeed sobre minded Ugandans, who in a telescopic frenzy, sought to assure the future path would be straight. Indeed we credit them, needless to say is that, the far we are today, hinges on what they enacted in the law then. However, something is not right after twenty two years that supreme and mighty law of the land was promulgated. The hygiene,in this case, the  lack of respect for a sailor's campass has led us to abyss. When the architects of this constitution sought of including the age limit in the constitution, they knew it would help the ...