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Apollo Kironde

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Apollo Kironde
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Ekikulamusajja Kyusa
Ensi y’obutuuzeYuganda Kyusa
Erinnya eriweereddwaApollo Kyusa
Yazaalibwa nga1915 Kyusa
Olunaku lwe yafa25 Gwakuna(Kafuumuulampawu) 2007 Kyusa
Ezzadde lyeKatiti Kironde Kyusa
Ennimi z'amanyiLungereza Kyusa
Omulimumunnabyabufuzi, diplomat Kyusa
Ekifo ky'alimuMinisita Kyusa

Apollo Kironde (1915 – 21 Ogwokuna 2007) yali Munnayuganda munnamateeka era ye Ambasada wa Uganda eyasooka mu kibiina ky’amawanga amagatte.[1][2]

Yali muzzukulu mu famire y’abakulu ab’edda ab’e Nsenene. Jjajjaawe, Apollo Kaggwa, yali minisita mu bwakabaka bwa Buganda Abangereza webaatuukira, era n’aweereza ng'omukulembeze ow'ekiseera eri kabaka wa Buganda eyali omuto Daudi Chwa okutuusa mu 1914, oluvannyuma y’asigala nga katikkiro wa Buganda okutuusa mu 1926. Olw’okufuba kwe, yaweebwa ekitiibwa kya knighting by Queen Victoria, n’afuuka Omufirika eyasooka okuweebwa ekitiibwa ky'obwa knight.[3]

Muzzukulu we era bwe bafaanaganya erinnya, Apollo Kironde, yali mutabani wa kubiri eri mutabani we eyasooka Assanasio Sentenza ne Bladina Kironde owookubiri. Ku myaka emito omuvubuka Apollo yalaga esuubi lingi era n’asindikibwa ebweru w’eggwanga okusoma. Yasoma okubeera omusomesa era oluvannyuma lw'emyaka mingi ng'asomesa yagenda e Bungereza n'asoma amateeka mu Middle Temple. Yadda mu Uganda era ye Mufirika eyasooka okuyita omutendera ogwo.

Kabaka wa Buganda Mutesa II bwe yawang’angusibwa mu Bungereza oluvannyuma lw’okukaayana ne gavumenti y’amatwale, ye Apollo Kironde eyagenda e Bungereza okufuna eddembe lye. Oluvannyuma yayitibwa okubeera minisita mu gavumenti y’amatwale, ekitiibwa kino kyali kya Bangereza bokka. Uganda bwe yawangula obwetwaze, yalondebwa okuba omubaka waayo eyasooka mu kibiina ky’amawanga amagatte.

Obufumbo n'abaana

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Kironde yawasa emirundi egiwera naye obufumbo bwe obwasokera ddala bwali ne Santa okuva mu famire ya Bakaluba eyekitiibwa mu 1945. Bano baazaala abaana babiri.

  • Kaddumukasa Kironde: Munnabyamawulire amnyiddwa ennyo mu Uganda. Obufumbo obuwera bwaletera Kironde okubeera
  • Katiti Kironde: Abeera Amerika ng'ono yafuuka omutwe omukulu ku magaziini ya bakyala.

Eky'ennaku, Santa yaffa nga azaala mu 1954. Obufumbo obw'emirundi egiwera bwaletera Kironde okubeera n'amakka abiri mu Amerika ne mu Bungereza. Omu ku bakyala be abo'luvannyuma yali Josephine Hawkins, gwe yawasa mu Newark, New Jersey, mu 1966 ng'awereeza nga ambasada w'Ekibiina kya mawanga amagatte.[4] Awamu, yalina abaana abawerera ddala 16.

Oluvannyuma lw'omulundi gwe ogwasooka mu Amerika, Kironde yadda e Uganda era yayitibwa ku Uganda bar mu Gwokuna 1953, nafuuka Omufirika asoose okwegezaamu nga munnamateeka mu ggwanga.

Ekifaananyi kya muwalawe Katiti Kironde kyafulumira ku magazini ya women's magazine.

Appolo Kironde yaffa nga 21 Ogwokuna 2007 ku myaka 92. Mu myaka gye egy'oluvannyuma, yali amanyikiddwa nga omu ku bantu abalina ettaka eddene mu Buganda era yafuna situlesi olw'enkaayana z'ettaka.

Ebijuliziddwa

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  1. Anne Mugisa, "Diplomat Kironde is dead" Template:Webarchive, New Vision, 22 April 2007.
  2. Kironde, Apollo K. (1963-01-08). Apollo K Kironde, First Permanent Representative of Uganda.
  3. Apollo Kironde | Uganda's first ambassador to the United Nations. #uganda #obote #amin #history (in Lungereza). Retrieved 2025-12-16 via www.youtube.com.
  4. "Apollo K. Kironde Weds Miss Hawkins". The New York Times Archives. Aug 27, 1966.