Kitara

Kitara was a kingdom remembered in the oral traditions of the African Great Lakes, with a court at Mubende in western Uganda. Tradition placed Bukuku’s seizure of the throne before the Chwezi dynasty.

According to tradition, Bukuku’s grandson Karubumbi, called Ndahura, founded that dynasty and campaigned toward Rwanda and Busoga. Under Wamara the Chwezi abandoned Kitara after ill omens, and power passed to Isingoma Rukidi’s Biito dynasty, whose kingdom became Bunyoro. At Bigo bya Mugenyi, associated with the Chwezi, extensive earthworks dated from about 1300 to 1500.