Masereka Levi Kahaika

Mkwamo.

Uganda: Fountain Publishers , 2018. 94 p. Soft. ISBN 9789970252954.  In English

Mkwamo is a Kiswahili play written by Masereka Levi Kahaika and Published in 2013. Though largely fictious Mkwamo is also partly built on the background of the two existing kingdoms of Kasulenge and Bupomboli, which represent the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro during the colonial period in Uganda. The play is also imagines the killings of the Uganda Martyrs; how and why it happened. The play offers readers a glance of the confusion between the kings of the time and the colonialists, and a reflection on the seeds of religiosity among the Ugandan community.

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