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Obwa Ikumbania Bwa Bugwere (Uganda)

Last modified: 2025-04-26 by bruce berry
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image by Jean-Marc Merklin, 4 Sep 2023
based on photo located by Paris Renesis, 4 Sep 2025 See also:

Flag

The gazetted Bagwere Cultural Institution (Obwa Ikumbania Bwa Bugwere) had a flag of horizontal black, red, yellow, green stripes and in the center a white disk with the arms:
https://www.facebook.com/photo

But then in the first Ikumbania’s funeral his coffin was draped in a different flag as we can see in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch
and in this photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo

This flag has 8 horizontal stripes (black, red, yellow, green, black, red, yellow, green) and a different shape for the white area containing the arms.

The same flag can also be seen here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo

Could this be a personal flag for the Ikumbania? In his son's (one of the claimants to the office of Ikumbania -AFAIK the government of Uganda still has not gazetted the next Ikumbania) FB page he gives his wishes for the Easter of 2023 using the "original" flag:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php
Paris Renesis, 4 Sep 2025

Emblem

image located by Paris Renesis, 4 Sep 2025

Earlier versions

2021
image by Jean-Marc Merklin, 4 Sep 2023

2015
image by Jean-Marc Merklin, 4 Sep 2023

I think the reintroduction of the 2015 flag in 2023 may just be casual, but nothing is certain. The emblem is slightly different on some flags, there are the letters "BRK" in addition. Note that in "Obwa Ikumbania bwa Bugwere", bwa is lower case.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwere_people), Bugwere is land of the Bagwere (Gwere) speaking the Lugwere language, mostly in Pallisa, Budaka, Kibuku and Butebo districts of the Eastern Region.
Jean-Marc Merklin, 4 Sep 2023