Nkokonjeru is a town council in

Buikwe District Buikwe District is a district in the Central Region of Uganda. It is named after its 'chief town', Buikwe, where the district headquarters are located. Location Buikwe District is bordered by Kayunga District to the north, Jinja District to ...

in the Central Region of

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with villages such as: Namaliiri, Kigulu, Mulajje, Naziwanga, Ndolwa, Buira, Bukasa, Wabiduuku, Nsuube and Nkokonjeru Central. The town's name means "White Chicken".

Geography

Nkokonjeru is approximately southwest of

Buikwe Buikwe, sometimes spelled Buyikwe, is a town in Buikwe District, Uganda. It is the administrative center of the district and the location of the district headquarters. Location Buikwe is approximately east of Kampala, Uganda's capital and large ...

, the location of the district headquarters. The town is approximately , by road, southwest of

Njeru Njeru is a town in Buikwe District, in the Central Region of Uganda. It is the largest town in the district. It is mainly a residential town. However, it hosts industries such as East African Packaging Solutions Limited, a manufacturer of pap ...

, the largest urban centre in the district. This is approximately , by road, southeast of

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, the capital and largest city of Uganda. The coordinates of Nkokonjeru are 0°14'22.0"N, 32°55'23.0"E (Latitude:0.239444; Longitude:32.923056).

Overview

Nkokonjeru was the location of a traditional shrine where the

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used to sacrifice ''white chicken'' prior to 1890. In 1891, the

Mill Hill Fathers The Mill Hill Missionaries (MHM), officially known as the Saint Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill (), is a Catholic society of apostolic life founded in 1866 by Herbert A. Vaughan. History The society was founded in 1866 by Herbert A. ...

established a

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in the area. When lightning felled the ''sacrifice tree'', the missionaries used the wood to burn bricks and build the Parish Church. Subsequently, they built schools, a hospital and a teacher's college. The Catholic Parish of Nkonkonjeru had over 45,000 registered parishioners, as of August 2009.

Population

In 2015, the

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(UBOS), estimated the mid-year population of Nkokonjeru at 9,200. In 2020, the population agency estimated the population of the town at 10,100. Of these, an estimated 5,400 (53.5 percent) were females and an estimated 4,700 (46.5 percent) were males. UBOS calculated the average annual population growth rate of the town at 1.88 percent, between 2015 and 2020.

Points of interest

The following points of interest lie within or near Nkokonjeru: 1. The offices of Nkokonjeru Town Council 2. Nkokonjeru Church of Uganda Primary School 3. St. Paul's Primary School, Nkokonjeru 4. St. Peter's Secondary School, Nkokonjeru 5. Nkokonjeru Teacher Training College 6. Nkokonjeru Technical College 7. Nkokonjeru Roman Catholic Church 8. Stella Maris Boarding Primary School, Nsuube 9. Stella Maris College, Nsuube 10. St. Alphonsus Demonstration School 11. St. Anthony Convent Secondary School 12.

Rural Agency for Sustainable Development The Rural Agency for Sustainable Development (RASD) is an NGO based in the Ugandan town of Nkokonjeru. It was first established as a CBO in 2000 before gaining NGO status in 2005, serving communities in the wider Buikwe, Kayunga and Mukono Dist ...

, a

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13. Nkokonjeru Savings and Credit Co-operative 14. Mother Kevin Vocation Institute 15. The Mukono–Kyetume–Katosi–Nyenga Road, passes through the middle of town in a general east to west direction 16. St. Francis Hospital Nkokonjeru, a 60-bed community hospital administered by the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugazi The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugazi () is a diocese located in the city of Lugazi in the ecclesiastical province of Kampala in Uganda. History * November 30, 1996: Established as Diocese of Lugazi from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kampala. ...

References

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