Six Receive Awards For Preserving Ugandan Cultural Heritage

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in Uganda news May 29, 2023

Six individuals have been awarded by the Cross-Cultural Foundation (CCFU) for their role in the conservation and protection of Uganda’s social and cultural heritage.

Started a decade ago, the National Heritage Awards aim at promoting and safeguarding the cultural heritage in the country.

Contrary to previous years, this episode had six awardees in total, with the extra one being the media personality award. This award went to Bismac Amumpaire, a journalist from Next Media.

According to the organizers, he got the highest nominations. The first award in the Intangible category went to the Francis Walakira family of Mpambire along Masaka road.

This family preserved the skill of making traditional drums within the family for over 75 years. The same family is also responsible for the famous Buganda band drums, Mujjaguzzo, which surround the King on several kingdom occasions.

In that same category, Judith Kirya received an award for promoting herbal medicine and using it for treatment. She has done this for over twenty years. Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare, a lecturer at Makerere University’s School of Performing Arts.

She was awarded for promoting oral literature and traditional music.

The other category is the Tangible Heritage and its winners were Makerere University’s College of Health Sciences, Hana Longole and the Ankole Diocese.

CCFU Executive Director, Barbra Babwetera said they initiated these awards to boost morale for cultural heritage preservation in the country. She said they mainly go to those who have done an exclusive job in this line.

Furthermore, she revealed that they are looking forward to the government taking up the program for the better.

“We hope and appreciate that even the government of Uganda, can pick it up from where we are and even magnify it and make it bigger and better to recognize and appreciate the efforts of our own people, and what they are doing to safeguard our heritage,” she said.

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