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WHY KING OYO WAS CALLED OYO - THE LUO SECRET OF TOORO & BUNYORO

If you are Mutooro or Munyoro, your King has a Luo name. Oyo, Olimi, Rukidi, Winyi, Kaboyo, Duhaga.

How?

Years ago, we had no Babiito. We had Bachwezi.

Kitara Empire was powerful, capital at Bigo bya Mugenyi. Then things went wrong.

King Wamara's cows started producing blood instead of milk. Mugenyi's sacred cow Bihogo died at a salt lick. Rebellions everywhere.

Wamara called his diviners. They brought a fattened calf, rinsed mouth with milk, slaughtered it to read the future.

They cut it open - *no entrails inside*.

No one could explain until a Luo diviner named *Nyakoka* from across the Nile came forward. He hit the head and the legs of the calf. Entrails fell out, with black soot from the fire.

He said:

"Empty stomach means reign of Bachwezi is over. Entrails in head and legs means Bachwezi will survive only as spirits in Mbandwa shrines. Black soot means Kitara will be taken by dark strangers from another land."

Bachwezi tried to kill him. He escaped north across the Nile back to *Bukidi* - today's Lango / Acholi.

Who was waiting in Bukidi?

Years before, a Chwezi Prince called Isimbwa was hunting in Luo land and left his son Kyomya behind. Kyomya married a Lango woman, Nyatworo, daughter of Labongo of Mukwonga clan.

Their child was mixed blood. They called him *Isingoma Mpuga Rukidi*.

Isingoma - father of drums (Bantu name subjects gave him)
Mpuga - _empuuga_ - black-and-white cow (meaning mixed ancestry)
Rukidi - his birthplace
Labongo - his Luo grandfather

He and his brothers were hunters, loved by Luo people.

Nyakoka found him resting under a *Bito tree*. That's why they are called *Babiito*.

He told him: "Kitara has no king. Go and take it."

So a small group of *Biito-Luo* crossed the Nile. Story says they had to sacrifice a child to cross. When they arrived at the empty Chwezi capital, Banyoro looked at them with suspicion - they were half Bantu, half Luo.

Rukidi asked Wamara's wives, Bunono and Iremera: "Where did Bachwezi go?"

They answered: "They disappeared towards Lake Victoria, they will never return."

He took the drum.

That was the start of Bunyoro-Kitara. The new kings lost their Luo language and spoke Runyoro. But they kept Luo names as throne names.

That's why the first Bunyoro kings are:
*Rukidi, Ocaki, Oyo Nyiba, Winyi I, Olimi I, Chwa, Nyabongo...*

When you become Omukama, you drop your childhood name and pick an ancestor name. To prove you are true Mubiito.

That's why:
- The founder of Tooro in 1830 was Prince Kaboyo who rebelled against his father Kyebambe III of Bunyoro. On the throne he called himself *Kaboyo Olimi I* - taking Luo ancestor name.
- Oyo's father named him *Oyo Nyimba* before going to Cuba as ambassador, and elders added *Rukidi IV* after his grandfather.

They even brought *Empaako*. The word _pako_ itself is Luo - it means "to praise someone". Amooti, Akiiki, Abwooli, Ateenyi - Luo pet names and has direct meaning in Luo language.

And Babiito are the only clan in Bunyoro that does NOT marry outside. They marry within to keep that royal blood.

Even Buganda: Rukidi's twin brother is *Kato Kimera*, third King of Buganda.

So we are Bantu people, but our kings are sons of Luo. That is why Banyoro/Batooro says: _"We are children of Bacwezi, grandchildren of Batembuzi, but sons of Rukidi Mpuga."_

Oyo was not just a name. It was 800 years of history.

Rest well, Rukidi IV.

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@M_Kananura Bilangilangi

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@arihodavis10 Delight my Sunday which Restaurant? Supplier ?

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@nanfukajamillah Tojja kulya.

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@mkainerugaba Noza kubagye.

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@justinenantale2 @mwiine_bri66880 Exactly

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@Morret17 Rest in Power King Oyo.

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@GabrielBuule You did well Buule.

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Kitalo..…Omuliro gwe Tooro guzikidde! Omukama wa Tooro, Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV avudde mu bulamu bw’ensi. Kino kikakasiddwa Omuhikirwa Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire Akiiki wabula naagumya abantu ba Tooro nti Obukama bwakugenda mu maaso kubanga Omukama alese Omubiito (Omulangira ) agenda okumuddira mu bigere. #Gambuuze #Ageesigika #BBSKATI

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Kitalo nyo!

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BREAKING NEWS

His Majesty the Omukama of Tooro, King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, has died.

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@DrBellahh @DaudiKabanda He is a different class.