BeingAfrican is a platform that strives to preserve African cultures, traditions, and languages. It is a meeting place where African cultures are explained within scope.
In recent decades, the emergence of large African diaspora communities within Africa itself, Europe, America, and elsewhere has resulted in the loss of traditional knowledge of African cultures. At the same time, the westernization of African countries has posed the same at home. Our platform is an attempt to preserve many of our centuries-old customs and traditions.
At BeingAfrican we understand that preservation of culture and protocols is everyone’s responsibility (parents and children) but mainly it lies with the elders.
- Learn about you, your people, and why you should be proudly Ugandan.
- Know who you married-cross cultural marriages
- Understand the people of the country you intend to visit-Hello tourists
- Learn the language-Basic language exposure. Say something in Luganda, Swahili…
- Share your rich Ugandan culture and language
Be present in appreciating the Ugandan in you and Ugandans around you. Understand Ugandan marriage practices, clans and totems, pregnancy traditions, manners and protocols, dining and hosting, music, art and dance, death and funerals.
As a Ugandan, you have a culture and you have a language!
UGANDA AT A GLANCE
Independence: October 9, 1962
Capital: Kampala
Population: 2,416,382
Area: 241 038 square km
Provinces: Central, Western, Eastern, and Northern
Ethnic groups/ Languages: Luganda, Swahili, Lango, Acholi, Runyoro, Runyankole, Rukiga, Luo and Lusoga
Where is Uganda on the continent of Africa?
Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania.