Kirima's rule is said to have been one of relative prosperity, but his reign was cut short by the first invasion of Banyoro, led by Cwa I son of Nyabwongo.

(It is rumored, but not confirmed, that Nyabwongo is Labongo, the first Babiito king of the Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom)[5] It is said that Mbogo was quite old and did not want to fight Kirima.

They insist that he was son of the king of Bugesera, a kingdom located south of Kigali ruled by the Abahondogo clan.

[9] During Cyirima's reign, Mukobanya grew up to become a great warrior and expanded the kingdom's territory, annexing Buriza and Rukoma along the way.

In the coup of July 1973, Kayibanda was ousted by Major General Juvénal Habyarimana, and the Parmehutu party was dissolved.

Habyarimana was killed when his plane was shot down near the presidential palace, and matters relating as to who was responsible remain unresolved.

An Omukuru, ideally a wise elder who knew the customs and traditions of his people, and who could be trusted to give fair advice and justice, was elected to preside over this expanded court.

[5] After leaving Bugombo, Kakiga settled in the forests of Kagarama, the mountains of the present border of Rwanda and Uganda in Kigezi region.

Though he initially wished to return home to fight the Banyoro invaders, he and his cohort found themselves settling in Uganda establishing a new group, Abakiga or Bakiga.

[9] For some reason, (people say out of anger towards his father Mbogo), Kakiga ordered obligatory circumcision of all male children in the Mungura clan.

Kakiga forbid his sons and daughters from marrying foreigners, because he believed his lineage should remain composed purely of Bakiga and people from Rwanda.

[10] The most common figures of the few known Bungura Royals include: Muhanga (Mubanga), Rwabutare, Kamboji, Kabogo, Katumba, Katamujuna, Kahigyi, Bakunzi, Mbogo, Rwakasole, Mungura, Rwambogo.

[8][5] The Abungura, few as they are in the present day, are still the recognized Royal Clan of the Kiga Tribe and many live on outskirts of Kabale Town, were they enjoy their inherited wealth.

Culturally, educational attainment is massively encouraged, and Bakiga are one of the peoples with the highest literacy rates in Uganda.

Rukiga, as a language, is a combination of the influence of the accents and alphabets from Rwanda, Ankore, Toro, Bufumbira, and Swahili.

An Anglo-German agreement signed in Brussels on 14 May 1910, modified part of the boundary between British and German territories initially established as the parallel of one degree south latitude by the treaty of 1890.

Details of the final delimitation and demarcation of the Rwanda-Uganda boundary between the Congo tripoint of Sabinio and the southwestern branch (Lubirizi) of the Tshinzinga (Muvogero) are given in an Anglo-German Protocol signed at Kamwezi on 30 October 1911.

[5][10] After the death of the Rwandan King, Kigeri IV Rwabugiri in 1895, one of his wives called Muhumuza fled to the mountains of Kiga and proclaimed an anti-colonial rebellion in 1911.

Ndungutse was seemingly killed, though sporadic rebellions sprang up until the advent of Belgian rule after World War I.

[16] The conditions for these rebellions were created by the system of forced labor tribute (ubareetwa) imposed on the Bakiga by their new colonial masters.

[18] The Bakiga became one of two major forces, along with the hill-level tensions of Hutu peasants and Tutsi chiefs, in the formation of "Social Revolution" of 1959.

With the onset of colonial rule, these chiefs were technically replaced by southern Tutsi and Bakiga who agreed to work for them.

[17] When the British came to nowadays Kabale in 1908, they found farmers and hunters living without any central authority, as they preferred to exist in this way, not wanting to be organized in manner that the other Rwanda groups were.

[10] There was frequent fighting, plunder and raids from all sides, of recent epidemics, famines, and a locust invasion had challenged the society.

The term "Bakiga" could be translated from Kinyarwanda as "Highlanders", and it was in the beginning most frequently used by the Royal clan of the Abungura, though at later time, they were mostly referred to by the outsiders, and rarely did the people themselves recognise it as a whole tribe.

[10] As sporadic attempts of Bakiga's violent resistance to foreign rule often formed around religious cults, entire traditional religion had to go underground to please the administration.

The Bakiga are majority Christian (Muslims are few) and starkly divided into Catholics and Protestants, a division which strongly polarizes communities.

One's religion can determine professional prospects and religious preferences heavily influence local political elections.

Clothes were borrowed, music equipment and generators brought to the area, every possible thing done to imitate foreign customs.

[13] Festo Karwemera, a respected elder from Kabale, offers this general comment: "Accepting the culture of the West is a result of the inferiority complex due to ignorance emanating from the fact that they are the ones introducing civilisation in this land and we tend to assume that everything they do is the best.