Busoga based Professor Paul Wangoola spent his new year’s eve in the rural village of Kikandwa, Luwero district, where native doctors across the country had gathered to participate in ritual worship, giving thanks to the spirits for successfully leading them through the previous year.
It is here that the Wangoola asked the native doctors to change his Church-given name, Paul, which they did, and gave him a traditional name.
The Professor asked that the same be done for his wife and Children, vowing never to be part of the Church or return to any belief system brought about by what he called ‘While Missionaries.’
Wangoola is the Founder and President of Mpambo Afrikan Multiversity, a higher education research institute for the revitalization and promotion of mother-tongue Afrikan scholarship.
Based near the source of the River Nile in Busoga Kingdom, Wangoola has been working closely with a team of deep thinkers trained in Indigenous ways of knowing totally outside of western educational schools and systems of thought.
He is said to be special advisor to the clan council of the Kingdom of Busoga.
“Because I have been delivered, I hope to help others. If one is not delivered, how can he/she do the same for others.” He told reporters in Luwero.
Recently, Mpambo Varsity and a team from the University of Victoria in British Colombia came together to recruit people of similar thinking, so that they can, in the words of Prof. Wangoola, Save the world.
“We want to start a new world order. We want to show the world that African knowledge and thinking are capable of moving the world forward.” Wangoola said.
The native doctors later burnt all rosaries that had been collected from the gatherers – telling people to return to their traditional norms.
“We have always burnt these rosaries for one reason,” one native doctor said, “Do church leaders meet a shrine and not set it ablaze. They say that before they deliver someone they have to burn their shrines.”
The entire night was spent communing with spirits (okusamira), to overwhelming cheers amid sheer consternation of some locals.
Daniel Nsubuga , a church leader in Mukono condemned this act and has asked district authorities in Luwero to intervene before the matter grows worse.
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