How King Ryangombe of the Bakimbiri, Queen Kitami of the Abaishekatwa and King Kahaya of the Bashambo formed Mpororo Kingdom.

Prior to the mid-1700s, the area a Kingdom called Mpororo was formed- This was as a result of agreements between three influencial groups that had emerged out of the wars between Bunyoro,Rwanda and Busongora.These three groups were the Bakimbiri led by King Ryangombe,the abaishekatwa led by Queen Kitami and Bashambo led by Kahaya Rutindangyenzi. After the defeat and death of the King of Bunyoro in a war with Rwanda Kingdom, a power vacuum was formed which led to wars between various groups. By the 17th century, three groups in the region had stood their ground and the most powerful of them being the Bashambo led by Kahaya Rutindangyenzi who took advantage of the power vacuum left by the King of Bunyoro. Kahaya reached out to the three groups that is the Bakimbiri through their King Ryangombe and Abaishekatwa to form one united Kingdom of Mpororo. That was the beginning of the Mpororo Kingdom. The Bakimbiri being mainly businessmen,miners and forgers of weapons were granted the role of managing the economic affairs of the Kingdom.The Abaishekatwa who idolized their queen Kitami were more of priests. The throne was left to the Bashambo.


The state of Mpororo had lasted about 50 years - until about 1775 when it was broken-up into six independent states led by the six sons of Kahaya: Nshenyi state under king Rukaari, Rujumbura state under king Kirenzi, Igara state under king Mafunda, Kajara state under king Kihondwa, Bwera state and Rukiga state. Despite this break-up, all the people of the new states continued to self-identify as primarily as Bahororo, and still do to this day.
Mpororo Kingdom remained more famous than its successor states. In 1887, Henry Morton Stanley was denied permission to cross Mpororo. Stanley's view of the Bahororo was unfortunate: "I had to negotiate with the people of Mpororo who were absolutely savage and never before came into contact with the stranger besides being in perpetual blood feud." Stanley's fellow traveller was Sheikh Ahmed bin Ibrahim, a Muslim trader. The Sheik claimed, "The Wanya-Ruanda-Bahororo are great people but they are covetous, malignant, treacherous and utterly untrustworthy. They have never yet allowed Arabs to trade in their country. There is plenty of ivory there during the last eight years. Khamis Bin Abdullah, Tippu Tip, Sayid bin Habib and myself have frequently attempted to enter there but none of us has ever succeeded. You cannot proceed through Mpororo for the people are Shaitan (Satanic) and the Wanya-Ruanda-Bahororo are wicked and because something happened when the Wangwana (bad people) tried to go there, the natives never tolerated stranger people and are full of guile verily."
The reports of Stanley and the Arab slave traders poisoned the reputation of the Bahororo, as well as the Banyarwanda and the Basongora. When Captain Frederick Lugard and others came to conquer Central Africa, they were afraid of both Hororo and Songora communities and consequently they were cruel towards them. In 1910, the British colonial occupation forcibly annexed all the states of Mpororo and added them to the neighbouring kingdom of Nkore. All throughout its history Nkore had only ever had 3 provinces, now the counties of Isingiro, Nyabushozi and Kashaari. With the addition of old Mpororo, Nkore more than doubled in size. However, even today many people still proudly refer to themselves as Bahororo [people of Mpororo] despite attempts to make them Banyankore [people of Nkore].
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