Being white sometimes brings to some favorable feedback. Being qualified as wazee, old men (mostly because of the beard, that for the people here is an index of old age and wisdom) is one of them. That's why we obtain (even thanks to the acquaintances of our high-ranked cultural broker) two seats on the first rank at an exclusive meeting of the most important businessmen of the district with the King of the Rwenzururu, Charles W. Mumbere.
The meeting is full of formalities, and it is difficult for us to understand the speech, almost completely in lhukonzo language. However we are greeted as special guests and the king bless us with an expressive glance of his hand. In few minutes we are able to unferstand the cultural importance of the institution of the kingdom, that on October the 19th will achieve 45 years. It has no political power, but poses itself as guardian of local traditions and promotor of the industrial development of the district.
The critics of people don't lack, and someone explain us that the istitution of the kingdom, today closer than ever to the politics of Ugandan Prime Minister Museveni, has emptied the strong meaning of the revolution that has led to his birth. The rebels that fighted beside Mumbere, militants of the opposition party and promoters of the indipendence of the Rwenzori region by Uganda and Congo, have been silenced long time ago and left behind in the administration of the kingdom.
Another glitch in Mumbere's policy is the management of the economic resources. He plans the rebirth of the region by the exploitation of raw materials as copper and cobalt, and the construction of big infrastructures: promises that are always neglected. Few words, instead, are said for a differend kind of economy, aiming to manifacturing in loco the resources, as coffee, and for the issue tourism, that could give strength to local funds. The Rwenzori chain is in fact one of the most attractive places of the whole continent, and so the Queen Elisabeth Park, located in the Western Rift Valley.
The meeting is full of formalities, and it is difficult for us to understand the speech, almost completely in lhukonzo language. However we are greeted as special guests and the king bless us with an expressive glance of his hand. In few minutes we are able to unferstand the cultural importance of the institution of the kingdom, that on October the 19th will achieve 45 years. It has no political power, but poses itself as guardian of local traditions and promotor of the industrial development of the district.
The critics of people don't lack, and someone explain us that the istitution of the kingdom, today closer than ever to the politics of Ugandan Prime Minister Museveni, has emptied the strong meaning of the revolution that has led to his birth. The rebels that fighted beside Mumbere, militants of the opposition party and promoters of the indipendence of the Rwenzori region by Uganda and Congo, have been silenced long time ago and left behind in the administration of the kingdom.
Another glitch in Mumbere's policy is the management of the economic resources. He plans the rebirth of the region by the exploitation of raw materials as copper and cobalt, and the construction of big infrastructures: promises that are always neglected. Few words, instead, are said for a differend kind of economy, aiming to manifacturing in loco the resources, as coffee, and for the issue tourism, that could give strength to local funds. The Rwenzori chain is in fact one of the most attractive places of the whole continent, and so the Queen Elisabeth Park, located in the Western Rift Valley.
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