Kabale Arts Center

Southwestern Uganda


Inside Kwanzi, this simple but worthwhile cultural museum houses a replica traditional homestead, built of sticks and papyrus, showing how the local Bakiga people lived a century ago. At the time of writing it was undergoing renovation but should be open by the time you read this.


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