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
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country 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. The south ...
with villages such as: Namaliiri, Kigulu, Mulajje, Naziwanga, Ndolwa, Buira, Bukasa, Wabiduuku, Nsuube and Nkokonjeru Central. The town's name means "White Chicken" in English.
Location
Nkokonjeru is approximately , by road, 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 , by road, east of Kampala, Uganda's capital ...
, 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 ...
, the largest urban centre in the district.
This is approximately , by road, southeast of
Kampala
Kampala (, ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and ...
, 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
Baganda
The Ganda people, or Baganda (endonym: ''Baganda''; singular ''Muganda''), are a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda. Traditionally composed of 52 clans (although since a 1993 survey, only 46 are officiall ...
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 ( la, Societas Missionariorum S. Ioseph de Mill Hill), is a Catholic society of apostolic life founded in 1866 by Herbert Alfred Vaughan, MHM ...
established a
Catholic Parish 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
Uganda Bureau of Statistics
The Uganda Bureau of Statistics ("UBOS") is an agency of the Ugandan government. Formed by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics Act, 1998, the agency is mandated to "coordinate, monitor and supervise Uganda's National Statistical System".
Locatio ...
(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, a
Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from g ...
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 ( la, Lugasien(sis)) 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 Archdi ...
See also
*
Hospitals in Uganda
The largest state-owned hospital in Uganda is Mulago Hospital in Kampala with around 1,500 beds. It was built in 1962.
Ian Clarke, a physician and missionary from Northern Ireland, built the 200-bed International Hospital Kampala, which was the f ...
*
List of roads in Uganda
The following is a list of the national roads in Uganda, which are under the jurisdiction of the Uganda National Roads Authority. The list is not exhaustive.
National roads
See also
* Economy of Uganda
* Transport in Uganda
*Kinshasa Highway
...
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List of cities and towns in Uganda
This is a list of cities and towns in Uganda: The population data are for 2014, except where otherwise indicated. The references from which the estimated populations are sourced are listed in each article for the cities and towns where the ...
References
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Populated places in Central Region, Uganda
Cities in the Great Rift Valley
Buikwe District