Naggalabi Buddo

Naggalabi Buddo: The Site of Buganda’s CoronationThis location has been preserved for a very long time since it is thought that the Buganda kingdom extends from here to neighboring regions. Since Buganda’s founding in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, all of its rulers have been crowned here. You get the opportunity to discover the most significant facets of the kingdom, from its founding to the present, at this coronation site, Kabakas.

For the previous 800 years, the Kabakas of the Buganda Kingdom have all been crowned in Naggalabi. According to history, the Buganda ceremonies performed atop Buddo Hill are essential because they imitate the first Kabaka, who was crowned here. In the thirteenth century, Kintu executed his brother Bemba and proclaimed himself king of Buganda.

In 1993, Ssabasajja Kabaka Ronald Kimera Mutebi II, the current Kabaka, was also anointed here. In addition to providing a continuous connection to Buganda’s past, the site also has some relevance to the country’s future. Prince Mutebi had to be crowned in the same location as his father, even after Obote had abolished kingdoms all those years before.

Although this location is very important to the Buganda Kingdom, it is also very important to tourists visiting the kingdom, as well as to anyone participating in a Uganda cultural safari or a Buganda cultural trail. The Nagalabi Coronation Site is located directly along the Kampala–Masaka highway in Nagalabi, Buganda’s Busiro County.

 

The hill is also home to a number of primary, middle, and high schools, including the esteemed mixed-boarding Kings College Budo, which was attended by all of Buganda’s monarchs, beginning with Captain Sir Daudi Chwa II, the thirty-fourth (34th) Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda, who ruled from 1987 to 1939.

Buddo is around a 30-minute drive from Kampala.