TORO (Kingdom)

  
TITLE: Omukama RELIGION:
STATE: Uganda DYNASTY: Babiito
   
PRESENT RULER: Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru RUKIDI IV, 11th Omukama of Toro (1995/-)
born 16th April 1992.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The founder of the Babiito dynasty was Isingoma Mpuga Rukidi I who ruled in Bunyoro in the 14th century. Toro was founded in 1830 when the eldest son of the Omukama of Bunyoro rebelled and established his own kingdom. Rulers were... 
  1. Omukama Kaboyo Kasunsunkwanzi OLIMI I 1830/1860's, married and had issue.
    • Omubiito Kazana RUHAGA (qv)
    • Omukama Nyaika Kasunga KYEBAMBE I (qv)
    • Omukama Kato RUKIDI I (qv)
    • Prince Barongo, born c1830.
    • SON, married and had issue.
      • Omubiito Nyamuyonjo KAKENDE (qv)
    Omubiito Kazana RUHAGA 1860's/1860's, overthrown by his brother after a short reign and is therefore not reckoned as Omukama. 
  2. Omukama Nyaika Kasunga KYEBAMBE I -/1870 and 1871/1872, overthrown by his brother with the help of an army given to him by the Kabaka of Buganda, and fled to nearby Mboga, in Congo, recaptured his throne after the mercernary troops returned home, married (amongst others), Victoria Kahinju and had issue. He died 1872.
    • Omukama Mukabirere OLIMI II (qv)
    • Omukama Daudi Kasagama KYEBAMBE IV (qv)
    • Princess Akiiki Mukakyabara Maliza Bagaaya Rwigirwa, married Omukama Yohana Kabarega CHWA II of Bunyoro-Kitara.
    • Omubiito Mukarusa KYEBAMBE II (qv) 
  3. Omukama Kato RUKIDI I 1870/1871, lost his throne when the mercernary troops of Buganda returned home.
  4. Omukama Mukabirere OLIMI II 1872/187?, married and had issue.
    • Omukama Daudi Kasagama KYEBAMBE IV (qv)
    • Prince Kamurasi
    • Prince Musuga
    Omubiito Mukarusa KYEBAMBE II 1870's, annexed the area of Busongora, in the southern end of Toro kingdom, and declared himself king over it, captured by Omukama KABAREGA of Bunyoro, along with a number of Royal Princes.
  5. Omukama Isingoma RUKIDI II 1870's
  6. Omukama Rububi KYEBAMBE III 1870's
  7. Omukama Nyamuyonjo KAKENDE -/1876, with the help of Buganda soldiers, he drove Omukama KABAREGA out of Toro, who retaliated by forcing him to flee to Buganda where he died of small-pox.

    8. INTERREGNUM 1876/1891 (Incorporated into Bunyoro-Kitara, till Omukama Kabarega was defeated on the 14th August 1891 by Captain Lugard.)

  8. Omukama Daudi Kasagama KYEBAMBE IV 1891/1928, born about 1874, baptized 15th March 1896 in Buganda, M.B.E., married (amongst 52 wives), Damali Tibaitwa and had issue. He died 29th December 1928 and was buried 3rd January 1929 in Karambi.
    • Omukama Sir George David Matthew Kamurasi RUKIDI III (ex Damali)(qv)
    • Princess Ruth Komuntale (ex Damali), 1900-1982
    • Prince Hosea Akiiki Nyabongo Ph.D., F.R.G.S., educated at Harvard University (Masters degree), at Cambridge University (Doctor of Philosophy degree), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama in the 1940's, and later at North Carolina A & T University, where he taught Philosophy, Chairman of the Uganda Town and Country Planning Board, married 1955, Ada Naomi Paynter, born in Bermuda, and had issue. He died 3rd October 1975.
      • Prince Amooti Kyebambe Mukarusa Nyabongo, born in Brooklyn, New York, educated at the Tuskegee University, graduating with a degree in Behavioral Science, served in the U.S. Airforce; following which he joined the New York Police Department, being assigned to the 81st and 90th precincts, to the department's recruiting section as a recruiter, and in the aviation unit as a police pilot, also served as a police instructor. He holds commercial pilot's licenses in both fixed wing aircraft and helicopters.
    • Prince Switzer
    • Prince Solomon
    • Prince Daniel
    • Prince Fred
    • Princess Kaboyka
    • Princess Agnes Kakoro
    • Prince J. Rwakatale
    • Princess Keesi Bahindi 
  9. Omukama Sir George David Matthew Kamurasi RUKIDI III 1929/1965, born 6th March 1904, served in the King's African Rifles during the First World War, where he earned the rank of lieutenant, he married 5 wives, including Kezia Byanjeru Abwooli, born 1906, she died May 1998, and had issue, 6 sons and 4 daughters. He died 21st December 1965.
    • Princess Elizabeth Bagaaya, born 1943, educated at a girls' boarding school in Uganda, at a boarding school in England, and Cambridge University, earning a degree in Law, admitted to the English bar in 1965, and became a practicing barrister at law, model for the magazines "Vogue" and "Harpers", actress, married 25th April 1981 in Westminster, London, Wilberforce Nyabongo, born 1956, died sp 1987.
    • Princess Grace 
    • Princess Ruth Komuntale
    • Omukama Patrick David Matthew Kaboyo Rwamuhokya OLIMI III (qv)
    • Prince Stephen, married Margaret Ssemugeshi
    • Princess Gertrude
    • Princess Rachel
    • Prince Nyaika, married and had issue???
      • Prince Charles Happy Kijanangoma, born c1956, married Salima Namutebi and had issue. He died 25th March 1999 in Fort Portal.
      • Lt. Prince Ronald Rubale
    • Prince Jimmy Mugenyi Muzimanuki
  10. Omukama Patrick David Matthew Kaboyo OLIMI III 1965/1967 and 1993/1995, born 9th September 1945, Uganda's Ambassador to Tanzania, married 1986, Queen Best Kemigisa, born of the reigning Ababiito clan of Toro, in a traditional pastoral village in Toro in the late sixties, daughter of Prince Mujungu of Butuku Toro, educated at Mpanga School in Toro, she champions social causes in Toro such as, women's small scale enterprises, orphans and children's concerns, and had issue. He died 26th August 1995 in Fort Portal.
    • Princess Ruth Nsemere Komuntare, born 1989.
    • Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru RUKIDI IV (qv)
    • Princess Celia Kamukyeka, born 1993, died 1997.

    INTERREGNUM 1967/1993

  11. Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru RUKIDI IV (qv)
OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Godfrey Kabeba, cousin of Princess Elizabeth Bagaaya
  • Angeline, cousin of Princess Elizabeth Bagaaya 
  • Prince Henry Kimera Ssekamanya
  • Princess Mabel Komuntale
  • Prince Charles Kamurasi
  • Prince Francis Mugenyi
  • Stephen Nyabongo Rwakijuma, born 15th June 1962, educated at Makerere University, Kampala (Bachelors degree in Economics) and in Bradford, UK (Masters in Science in National Development and Project Planning), he has done postgraduate training in Worthing, UK as well as in Vienna, Austria, appointed Prime Minister (Omuhikirwa) of Toro Kingdom on 18th November 2001 before the 160 member's Legislature of Toro Kingdom, served as Acting Premier since 2000, appointed Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning in 1998, married and has issue, 3 children. 
 
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