Prof. George Wilberforce Kakoma: Evolution Of The Uganda National Anthem

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9nzT9_leB2NRpBgsX3HaOyZDUfGHpIlZkYGH-84PX5-_REi9TaPvRYmEYzTF1riJKwqRB1t1bPOBMnjx-9z13JnHBXEyksKbDeNaPR8vDZVO_xXo_TEV0UXQF33Byi7ToDCXlaGQTKqg/s1600/Photo+of+Professor+George+Wilberforce+Kakoma.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9nzT9_leB2NRpBgsX3HaOyZDUfGHpIlZkYGH-84PX5-_REi9TaPvRYmEYzTF1riJKwqRB1t1bPOBMnjx-9z13JnHBXEyksKbDeNaPR8vDZVO_xXo_TEV0UXQF33Byi7ToDCXlaGQTKqg/s1600/Photo+of+Professor+George+Wilberforce+Kakoma.jpg" /></span></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><b>Prof. George Wilberforce Kakoma, musical composer of Uganda's national anthem</b></span></b></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span><br /> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The exact appointment of George Wilberforce Kakoma's nativity is non clear, but it’s believed that he was born betwixt 1923 as well as 1925 inwards the Southern District of Masaka inwards Republic of Uganda as well as is a Muganda past times tribe. Kakoma is credited with composing the national anthem of the Republic of Uganda.</span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is something to hold upwards said almost the purpose of a national anthem inwards galvanizing the spirit of a people newly formed equally a nation. This is peculiarly truthful for African nations during the stream of rapid European decolonization. Kakoma's run is an illustration of the powerful purpose of music inwards developing national traditions as well as creating a feel of unity with people from various cultural backgrounds.</span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">From 1894 to 1962, Republic of Uganda was ruled past times Britain, which way it used to hoist the British </span><span style="color: black;">Union Jack as well as used to sing </span>the British National Anthem. As the combat for independence intensified inwards Uganda, it became clear that the province was going to accomplish independence from the British Colonial masters as well as would demand both a national anthem or a national flag that embodied its independence.</span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ti_jFwcihujc_Q_lmixQIHJzXj9tKew6yZ2xvEPh6sSKk2-Q_kJft9Eh3s9so0MQpB4LHasYsk70enna5W3XKYffKO4ZOl8KQ_9Dkh8pvPjV7h15ADMQC1QFmebm72gfKJQwOmHbMQE/s1600/Photo+of+National+Flag+of+Uganda.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ti_jFwcihujc_Q_lmixQIHJzXj9tKew6yZ2xvEPh6sSKk2-Q_kJft9Eh3s9so0MQpB4LHasYsk70enna5W3XKYffKO4ZOl8KQ_9Dkh8pvPjV7h15ADMQC1QFmebm72gfKJQwOmHbMQE/s320/Photo+of+National+Flag+of+Uganda.gif" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Image of national flag of Uganda</b></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prior to independence, a subcommittee for the creation of national anthem was set up. It was 1 of the 3 sub-committees established to bargain with Uganda’s national symbols. </span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> Professor Senteza Kajubi was the chairman of the committees. The sub-committee organized a country-wide publicity travail for original compositions. Ugandans were encouraged to submit their pieces. </span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The compositions had to hold upwards short, original, solemn, praising as well as looking forrard to the future,” said Professor Kajubi.</span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> Many people participated inwards the music contest but the commission was non satisfied. Prof. Kajubi decided to seek assist from George Wilberforce Kakoma, thence a renowned inspector of schools as well as a music instructor inwards Masaka District to “save” the commission because they did non convey a national anthem. </span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho2ly5b6wLkFsa48Lk-zwMffKuRAacEihjki8omW4yK_R3ziPUO9_BgeLdqI1gR_6STbAh6HSg9-h5k_B1dX5cjFvTa9tMJdCyxPctpwoOg3vEnZwgAE24E9EfuaX-uQRs1phEBZJkrWw/s1600/Professor++Kakoma+composer+of+the+Music+of+the+Uganda+National+Anthem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho2ly5b6wLkFsa48Lk-zwMffKuRAacEihjki8omW4yK_R3ziPUO9_BgeLdqI1gR_6STbAh6HSg9-h5k_B1dX5cjFvTa9tMJdCyxPctpwoOg3vEnZwgAE24E9EfuaX-uQRs1phEBZJkrWw/s320/Professor++Kakoma+composer+of+the+Music+of+the+Uganda+National+Anthem.jpg" width="255" /></span></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><b>Photo: Professor George Wilberforce Kakoma</b></span></b></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Kakoma, a foreign tune rang continuously inwards his caput at night, disrupting his sleep. He decided to wake upwards as well as seat pen to paper.</span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I sat downwards as well as looked through what I had ciphered during the nighttime hours. I worked on those ideas till midday.” </span><br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0.02in; margin-top: 0.02in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The events leading to the composition of the anthem were summarized inwards the 2008 instance filed past times Prof George William Kakoma, thence a graduate of Trinity College of Music as well as professor at the Durham University inwards London, <span style="font-size: small;"><i>Prof. George W. Kakoma v. The Attorney General</i></span><span style="font-size: small;"> (Civil Suit No.197 Of 2008) [2010] UGHC xl (30 July 2010). Kakoma</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> sued the regime of Republic of Uganda for non rewarding his efforts upwards to the fourth dimension of the instance filing as well as the non payment of royalties arising from the playing of the national anthem. The instance inwards business office provided the following:</span></span></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </div> <ol style="text-align: left;"> <li><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That early on inwards 1962 an opened upwards contest for the composing of our National Anthem was advertised.</span></i></li> <li><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That no weather condition were attached to the would-be winning entry.</span></i></li> <li><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That his was declared the winner.</span></i></li> <li><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That he was given a token of Shs.2,000/= equally a score of appreciation.</span></i></li> <li><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That a twelvemonth or 2 later, the regime realizing this was copyright material, wrote bespeak him to give upwards his copyright to them.</span></i></li> <li><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That he referred the thing to his lawyers who responded as well as wrote dorsum to the Government demanding a fee of 5000 exclusively earlier he could sign off his copyright. That the political turmoil that followed left the thing unsettled until Idi Amin’s regime came to power.</span></i></li> <li><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That inwards Jan 1975 he went into self-exile with his menage unit of measurement as well as taught at Kenyatta University until NRA regime came to ability inwards 1986, when at that topographic point was the adventure to convey the thing raised again.</span></i></li> <li><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That the Ministry of Justice took upwards the thing as well as presented a Cabinet Memo which was turned downwards on a flimsy Earth that compensating him would practise a precedent.</span></i></li> </ol> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tune was composed past times Prof. Kakoma but the lyrics (or words) were composed past times Peter Wyngard, Kakoma’s personal friend as well as a lecturer at Makerere Institute of Education.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The evolution as well as resolution of this legal instance inwards Uganda's courts also demonstrates of import developments of the application of the dominion of police generally, as well as the recognition of intellectual belongings rights specifically, inwards Uganda.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="290" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/saRuTA2a59c" title="Prof. George Wilberforce Kakoma: Development of the Republic of Uganda National Anthem" width="380"></iframe></span></div> <blockquote> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b>The National Anthem of Uganda</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b><br /> </b></span><span style="color: black;"><b><br /> </b></span><i></i></span><br /> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><i></i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Oh Republic of Uganda may God uphold thee,</i></span></i></i></div> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></i><br /> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>We lay our futurity inwards thy hand,</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>United gratis for liberty</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Together we’ll ever stand.</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Oh Republic of Uganda the terra firma of freedom,</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Our love as well as labour nosotros give,</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>And with neighbours all,</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>At our country’s call</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>In peace as well as friendship we’ll live</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Oh Republic of Uganda the terra firma that feeds us,</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>By Sun as well as fertile soil grown,</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>For our ain dearest land,</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>We shall ever stand,</i></span></i></div> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><i>The pearl of Africa’s crown</i></span><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></i></div> </blockquote> <div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With special thanks, this postal service has been prepared inwards swell business office past times <b>Moses G. Byaruhanga, Esq.</b>, Advocate/Attorney at Bar, <b><a href="http://shonubimusoke.co.ug/">Shonubi, Musoke & Co. Advocates</a></b> in Uganda.</span><br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Post note: On Apr 8, 2012, Professor George Wilberforce Kakoma died at the historic stream of 89. He was set to balance inwards his habitation district of Wakiso inwards Uganda) </span></div> </div>

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