Nyinamwiru

Nyinamwiru, whose name means ‘commoner mother’, is the only child of Bukuku, the last Tembuzi king of Kitara in Nyoro oral tradition. Witch-doctors warned Bukuku that his daughter's son would kill him, so he shut her away in a house accessible only through his palace; some accounts add that he maimed her to destroy her beauty.

While she was confined, Isimbwa, son of King Isaza, climbed into her room by a ladder and stayed with her for months before leaving. She bore a son, Karubumbi, later called Ndahura, who killed Bukuku and founded the Chwezi dynasty of Kitara.