Bagisu Royal House
The Umukuuka
To preserve, promote and enhance culture as well as the material economic heritage of Bamasaaba in Uganda, Kenya and Diaspora.
H.R.H Jude Mike
H.R.H Jude Mike Mudoma
Umukuuka III
The Third King Of Bamasaaba
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The Cultural Institution of the Bamasaaba was established through the efforts of some prominent Bamasaaba working together as Inzu ya Masaaba and leading to the installation of one of them, Wilson Wamimbi Weasa, as the Umukuuka I in 2010. The Bamasaaba included Canon Codvia Wakiro, Pro. Timothy Wangusa, Eng. Darlington Sakwa and Rev Father James Korosia. Their aim was to unite the Bamasaaba living in their ancestoral lands of eastern Uganda and western Kenya as well as in the Diaspora.
In 2012, however, the Parliament of Uganda passed the Cultural Institutions Act enabling all cultural communities that wished to have traditional and cultural leaders who wished to do so to be recognised so the Umukuuka was recognised under the laws of Uganda”.
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BAMASAABA HISTORY
Bamasaaba are a people who occupy a place called Masaabaland found at the slopes of Mt. Masaaba, also called Mt. Elgon. Masaabaland is a place that cuts across two nations – Uganda and Kenya.
The grandfather of Bamasaaba is Masaaba, son of Mundu and Seera who lived in Khaukha Cave in Mt. Masaaba. Mundu and Seera is a legendary couple that came to be the birthroot of Bamasaaba.
Masaaba gave birth to three sons, Mwambu, Mubuuya and Wanaale, who in turn gave birth to the 26 clans that form the cultural institution called Inzu ya Masaaba.
Bamasaaba are a population of over seven million people that inhabit the region across Mt. Masaaba; in Eastern Uganda and Western Kenya. They occupy the districts of Mbale, Sironko, Manafwa, Bududa, Bulambuli and Namisindwa in Uganda; and Bungoma and Trans Nzoia counties in Kenya. Bamasaaba are commonly known as Bagisu in Uganda and Babukusu in kenya