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Haile Selassie House. Tororo, Eastern Uganda.
According to the locals, this building was inspired by the visit of the Lion of Judah to Uganda in the late 1960s.
I then remembered my late grandfather telling me stories that there were two "visits" to Uganda in the 1960s that were particularly prominent.
That of Emperor Haille Selassie and that of Pope Paul VI. He was in the crowd lined up on South Street (I think it's what is now called Ben Kiwanuka Street) to see the pope. The pope sat in an open car with Sir Edward Muteesa. People thick-lined the road. They were excited but controlled. Funny.
Unlike today, I saw no heavily armed police or soldiers armed to the tooth or pushing people around when Pope France visited in 2015.
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According to the locals, this building was inspired by the visit of the Lion of Judah to Uganda in the late 1960s.
I then remembered my late grandfather telling me stories that there were two "visits" to Uganda in the 1960s that were particularly prominent.
That of Emperor Haille Selassie and that of Pope Paul VI. He was in the crowd lined up on South Street (I think it's what is now called Ben Kiwanuka Street) to see the pope. The pope sat in an open car with Sir Edward Muteesa. People thick-lined the road. They were excited but controlled. Funny.
Unlike today, I saw no heavily armed police or soldiers armed to the tooth or pushing people around when Pope France visited in 2015.
#local
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