By kakoba media
The kingdom of Buganda is set to reopen its historical place after 13 years of reconstruction works after catching fire in 2010, Anthony Wamala, the kingdom’s minister of heritage and tourism says that the burial grounds for Buganda’s kings are set to be reopened to the public this December
The kingdom has been working tirelessly to restore the tombs to their traditional architecture and with the works now near completion, the kingdom hopes that the tombs will soon be removed from the endangered heritage list and resorted back to UNESCO’s World Heritage sites during this month’s 45th session of the World Heritage committee scheduled to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 10th to 25th September.
Wamala noted that the most crucial works on the tombs are finished with just a few works still ongoing such as leveling the courtyard, making the floor inside the tombs, installing inner pillars, and bidding the reeds for the fence around the tombs.
“We expect that by end of this year, most of the works will be finished for the tombs to be opened to the public again,” he said. Following the fire, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) included Kasubi tombs on list of world heritages in danger. The list is designed to inform the international community of conditions that threaten the very characteristics for which a property was inscribed on the World Heritage List and to encourage corrective action
