Ebyafaayo By'ekika Ky'effumbe | The Ffumbe (Civet Cat ) Clan | S1 : EP03

The Ffumbe (Civet Cat) Clan Secondary Totem:(Akabbiro) ~ Kikere (Frog) Head Of Clan:(Ow'Akasolya) ~ Walusimbi Clan Seat:(Obutaka) ~ Bakka, Busiro Clan Mottoes:(Emibala) Galinnya e Bakka (amafumbe). E Bakka basengejja (mbu ebirungi tebiggwa Bakka). Kasolo ki? Ffumbe. Ka muti gumu. Kakozaakoza alikoza mu lw'effumbe. Taatuuke Bumpi. ---------------------------------------- The beginning of the Fumbe Clan The Ffumbe Clan is one of the five original clans (Bannansangawo) of Buganda. All members of the Ffumbe clan descend from BUGANDA NTEGE WALUSIMBI. His seat or headquarters (obutaka), which is also for the clan, is situated at BAKKA in Busiro (just a few kilometres on Kampala-Hoima road). The oral history relates that when the nation Buganda was still called Muwaawa, the hill on which the Ffumbe seat is located was called Kisirikikadde or Namwezi. It got the name Bakka during Kabaka Kagulu Tebuucwereke's reign. The people who escaped Kagulu's reign of terror used to seek refuge at Bakka and when they were descending down the hill, people used to point to them saying "baabo bakka" meaning 'there they are going down the hill'. Since then, the place is called Bakka. Legends say that Walusimbi was created on Bakka. Our great Grandfather and the founder of the clan went to hunt and he laid a trap. When the animal fell into the trap, Walusimbi (Walusiri) went to see his catch but the animal was still alive and it bit him. He cried out, calling his children to come and help him. His first born Makubuya was the first on the scene and he killed the small animal. He then asked "Kasolo ki kano akakaabya Ttaata akayirigombe?" meaning "what a small animal that has caused daddy to screech". Mukubuya belittled the animal disregarding the fact that it was this small animal which had inflicted such pain on his father. Mukubuya implied that his father should not have screeched to that level. So Walusimbi was annoyed and gave his first born one more name NAGAYA that can be translated "I despised". Mukubuya never got the right to be the heir to his father, but he got a ssiga at Bakka called Nagaya (Nagaya e Buleza). Walusimbi's son Ntege Kaweesa picked the herbs or medicine called Magunda which he mixed and dressed his father's wound and the wound healed, from then Walusimbi gave Ntege Kaweesa yet another name in recognition of this action. The name he gave him was Magunda after those herbs. He was given the ssiga at Boza at Nvule hill but after a smallpox outbreak, he moved to Lwanga (Magunda e Lwanga)