{"id":14098,"date":"2019-08-20T13:26:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T10:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=14098"},"modified":"2023-03-03T18:43:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:43:12","slug":"the-origin-and-meaning-of-the-famous-kabbo-komuwala-at-introduction-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=14098","title":{"rendered":"The origin and meaning of \u2018kabbo k’omuwala\u2019 at introduction ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rashim Nabanja<\/strong><\/p>\n

During traditional ceremonies, there are many things that a couple has to go through in order for the ceremony to be considered rightfully done, especially in the Buganda kingdom.<\/p>\n

On top of the mutwalo<\/em>, which is the bride price, a groom brings calabashes of local brew, and the bridal suitcase. The bride in return gives the groom a gift known as akabbo ko\u2019muwala<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Akabbo ko\u2019muwala <\/em>is usually a basket containing edible gifts given by a bride to the groom during their introduction ceremony.<\/p>\n

My Wedding contacted Twaha Mukisa, a traditional ceremonial spokesperson and he explains the origin and reason behind the exchange of these gifts.<\/p>\n

Origin<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Twaha, the term kabbo ko\u2019muwala<\/em> is a short form of a Luganda proverb that states, \u2018Akabbo ko\u2019muwala kajja kajudde, kaddayo kajudde\u2019, which loosely translated as \u201cA brides basket is brought full and has to be returned the same way.\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n

When a groom is introduced to the bride\u2019s parents, he has to bring gifts with him to offer to the bride and her family as a sign of appreciation for allowing the introduction to take place. In return, the bride would also offer her husband to-be gifts, as a sign of being polite, which is where the entire proverb originates. Click to read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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By Rashim Nabanja During traditional ceremonies, there are many things that a couple has to go through in order for the ceremony to be considered rightfully done, especially in the Buganda kingdom. On top of the mutwalo, which is the bride price, a groom brings calabashes of local brew, and the bridal suitcase. The bride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1791],"class_list":["post-14098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kwanjula"],"authors":[{"term_id":1791,"user_id":10,"is_guest":0,"slug":"rnabanja","display_name":"Nabanja Rashim","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cedfb5c470cdad86885c54b342ee34448d4e53fce07e168bd85e1573c9a97c45?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Nabanja","last_name":"Rashim","user_url":"http:\/\/mywedding.co.ug","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14098"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23813,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions\/23813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14098"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=14098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}