Gulu, Uganda in 2024 (20 Years After Joseph Kony)

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  • Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
  • In this video, we will walk though Gulu, Uganda, the capital of the country's Northern region. This area was once terrorized by Joseph Kony, and his Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group. But now, it has developed into a surprisingly clean and organized city.
    00:00 -- Introduction
    01:14 -- Traveling to Gulu
    03:55 -- Gulu Walking Tour
    13:44 -- Nightlife in Gulu

КОМЕНТАРІ • 88

  • @gambaemma2895
    @gambaemma2895 4 місяці тому +9

    Wow 20 years after all the war, it's hard to even believe there was a war here coz Gulu is really beautiful, Gulu is the Northern City in it's Might and Majesty and that's why the are represented by An Elephant. This City should be a must visit for anyone planning to visit Uganda.
    I am Glad i was part of this trip with you. Thank you for the good work Brother Willie

  • @northernface1298
    @northernface1298 2 місяці тому +1

    Gulu that is my homeland .. i found this video after i watched your video on Rakai the canniablism ..

  • @peggystoutemorin4529
    @peggystoutemorin4529 Місяць тому

    Gulu looks very orderly. Much better than Kampala. I must visit there when I move to Uganda. Bravo to you for your clean streets.

  • @BrandonLPitts
    @BrandonLPitts 4 місяці тому +2

    I usually don't comment, but this was a great video, Willie. You have a good theme and a solid historical reference; you seemed relaxed, and you connected with a nice woman. You deserve that. Keep it up.

  • @sheilaaciro6336
    @sheilaaciro6336 4 місяці тому +1

    Thank for the great video

  • @user-yq9ew4hg9j
    @user-yq9ew4hg9j 4 місяці тому +2

    Great work

  • @luoblood
    @luoblood 4 місяці тому +2

    I enjoyed this video! It was my favourite so far.

    • @WillieFungo
      @WillieFungo  4 місяці тому +1

      Thanks!

    • @taharka3897
      @taharka3897 4 місяці тому

      ​@@WillieFungoI just saw your cannibal video. You actually believe that bs. White people did so much damage to black people minds. I thought you were more intelligent than that. I guess I was wrong.

  • @juanlion1104
    @juanlion1104 4 місяці тому +1

    Keep up the good work 👏🏽...hooe you visit Malawi or Zambia next. I'm interested in those countries

  • @youme1414
    @youme1414 4 місяці тому +1

    Thank you, sir.

  • @edwardocaya9261
    @edwardocaya9261 4 місяці тому +5

    It is not only the rebels, the nrm did maybe 90 parcent of the killings and they still do up to date. So do be misled. I was born in Gulu and i love my town.

  • @user-jx4ip1oh5l
    @user-jx4ip1oh5l 2 місяці тому

    Very apreaciable content...luv africa..

  • @blochspin
    @blochspin 4 місяці тому +3

    Go to Kisumu in Kenya on Lake Victoria. It is also super clean and home of the Luos.

  • @siramike2654
    @siramike2654 2 місяці тому

    it's been 30 years since last visited Gulu as A boy. major changes indeed. keep up guys.

  • @siramike2654
    @siramike2654 2 місяці тому +1

    Gulu looks 10 times better than Kampala. keep it up boys.

  • @JerryMartin-pz1bf
    @JerryMartin-pz1bf 4 місяці тому +1

    What a beautiful city

  • @billygoat300
    @billygoat300 4 місяці тому +4

    I really am thankful I discovered your channel, as I truly appreciate your content concerning Uganda 🇺🇬
    Have you and Oshay Duke Jackson ever discussed collaboration and/or a simple interview 🤔 🙏

    • @WillieFungo
      @WillieFungo  4 місяці тому +3

      Thanks for your comment. I reached out to Kenganda when I was in Uganda, but I got the run-around. So I'm no longer interested.

    • @Badlander87X
      @Badlander87X 4 місяці тому

      ​@@WillieFungoyeah he seems to have some hidden agendas and motives where he doesn't want to work with anyone outside of his little click of buddy's

    • @Badlander87X
      @Badlander87X 4 місяці тому

      ​@@WillieFungoyeah he seems to have some hidden agendas and motives where he doesn't want to work with anyone outside of his little click of buddy's

    • @Justin-wk5mi
      @Justin-wk5mi 3 місяці тому

      Sorry to hear that man, he is one of the main reasons I visited UG 5 years ago. Just keep doing your thing 👍🏾​@@WillieFungo

  • @justyuyun1557
    @justyuyun1557 2 місяці тому

    I just realize there's no moped motorcycle 😮 .
    Oh man that skewer 🤤🤤

  • @prophetessafiawan2692
    @prophetessafiawan2692 3 місяці тому +1

    I wish to visit Uganda 🇺🇬 one day

    • @northernface1298
      @northernface1298 2 місяці тому

      come visit Gulu but dont stop only within town area .. move at the surbed downtown

  • @DarkMan24999
    @DarkMan24999 3 місяці тому

    I can’t wait for you to make a video on Lira, Uganda! 🦏🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬

  • @Badlander87X
    @Badlander87X 4 місяці тому +3

    I honestly can't wait to take my moterbike trip and vist Gulu

  • @merseyian
    @merseyian 4 місяці тому +1

    I was there in late December 2023. It is a lovely civil place and no muzongo cat calls or people requesting money. North of town is where so many NGOs are located they take up half the city!😮 Nothing much happening in the city other than the coach stops. Lots of greenery and few mosquitos. Go chill

  • @ginnied7346
    @ginnied7346 3 місяці тому

    Is that a person/body laying down under the back of that car ??? ( 4:49 ish mark )

  • @DarkMan24999
    @DarkMan24999 3 місяці тому +1

    🐘🐘🐘

  • @tedted2138
    @tedted2138 3 місяці тому

    You want me to join you there for one of your adventures?

  • @lambie9161
    @lambie9161 3 місяці тому

    so at the 4:48 mark the guy under the car, so am I the only one seeing unalive people?

    • @WillieFungo
      @WillieFungo  3 місяці тому

      He is not unalive. He is just drunk.

  • @Steph_Said
    @Steph_Said 3 місяці тому +2

    That guy looked unalive.

    • @WillieFungo
      @WillieFungo  3 місяці тому

      He's not. He is one of the drunk/intoxicated people. I saw several like that passed out in weird places in Uganda.

  • @papd3532
    @papd3532 4 місяці тому

    In 1980 Yoweri Museveni,a former assistant researcher to President Milton Obote, disagreed with Obote and Launched Luweero war .
    Gen David Oyite Ojok(one of best trained soldiers in Uganda history,at least 6 years EU,US and comparable to Gen Bazillio Olara Okello in the battle field) died in a plane crash on his way to Luweero on December 2 1983 .
    This changed the direction of the war .
    As Chief of Staff Gen David Oyite Ojok had contained Yoweri Museveni’s NRA(National Resistance Army) rebel insurgency in the Luweero Triangle .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      Between 1981-86 Paul Kagame and Fred Rwigema together with other banyarwanda tutsi exiled in Uganda fought alongside Yoweri Museveni in Uganda .

    • @fredkaijuka7717
      @fredkaijuka7717 4 місяці тому

      And then m7 finished him off.so who was better?

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      @@fredkaijuka7717 You will know once they are gone like Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe or Nelson Mandela of South Africa .

    • @fredkaijuka7717
      @fredkaijuka7717 4 місяці тому

      @@papd3532 i mean atleast u hv the assurance frm the creator that u will live forever that i dont know but the thing was if two good fighters/soldiers spar and one kills the other that mean the one dead was inferior to the one who killed him thus m7 was a class far above Oyit ojok.....period.

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      @@fredkaijuka7717 criminals eliminate people every day , are they above those they eliminate

  • @papd3532
    @papd3532 4 місяці тому

    In 1979 Uganda exiles in Tanzania, Kenya led by Gen Tito Okello, Gen Bazillio Olara Okello, Gen Oyite Ojok together with Airforce Commander Major Alfred Otto, Airforce Cpt Harry Oluoch , Cpt Peter Oringi , Lt Col John Ogole , Buffalo Commander Major Eric Odwar, Cpt Oyile, Lt Okot,Lt Okumu supported by Tanzania President Julius Nyerere and Kenya VP Oginga Odinga launched a rebellion against Idi Amin through Mwanza ,Tanzania/Kisumu ,Kenya on L. Victoria restoring President Milton Obote .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      At least 800 Uganda Luo-Langi and Luo-Acholi soldiers died in the rebellion against Idi Amin . At least 300 died in Lake Victoria when their boat from Mwanza in Tanzania and Kisumu Kenya towards Entebbe capsized .
      The soldiers had been trained in Uganda by Gen Bazillio Olara Okello as an Infrantry instructor at Jinja . Together with Lt Shaban Opolot ,Gen Bazillio Okello had established the 2nd Battalion in Moroto Uganda .

  • @papd3532
    @papd3532 4 місяці тому

    The Luo including the Luo Acholi of Gulu Uganda are diasporic(at least 20million spread out roughly 9 territories) and settled thousands years with skilled warriors(e.g Owiny and Lwanda Magere) through conquest, intermarriage and assimilation e.g Luo-Suba in Kenya, Tanzania and Luo-Babito/Luo-Langi in Uganda with tendencies for large families thanks to history of polygamy in the past like all other AFRO groups .
    The Luo conquered several kingdoms in the past through their southward movement and contributed to banyarwanda tutsi southwest movement to present day Rwanda/Congo, influencing rulership for Luo-babito and Baganda Kingdoms in Uganda .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      Kenya Luo proper(Kenya Nationalist Tom Mboya, VP Oginga Odinga ,OBAMA ,LUPITA NYONGO ),Luo-Suba .
      Tanzania Luo proper, Luo-Suba,Luo-Wasweta,Luo-Mukisero .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      Uganda Luo-Langi(President Milton Obote, Gen David Oyite Ojok, Gen Smith Acak Opon, zanzibar liberator John Okello , united Tanganyika+Zanzibar=Tanzania), Luo-Acholi(Presidents Gen Tito Okello and Army Commander Gen Bazillio Olara Okello,Airforce Director,Maj Alfred Otto,Airforce pilots Cpt Harry Oluoch,Cpt Eric Odwar etc .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      LRA rebels against Yoweri Museveni JOSEPH KONY , Alice Auma Lakwena ,Dominic Ongwen, Vincent Otti, Okot Odhiambo,Raska Lukwiya,Nixman Opuk Oryanga,Ceaser Achellum,Bunia Ocan,Actress SHEILA ATIM-"WOMAN KING"),Luo-Padhola, Luo Alur, Luo-Kumam, Luo-Jonam,Luo-babito,Luo-jopaluo of Uganda .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      North East Congo Luo Alur . Eastern Central Africa Republic and South East Chad Luo-Alur , Luo-Acholi , Luo-Langi . Sudan and Lower Egypt Luo-Shilluk, Luo-Anuak, Luo-Pari, Luo-Thuri, Luo-Balanda, Luo-Jur Chol,Luo-Bar el Ghazal . South West Ethiopia Gambella and Eritrea Luo-Anuak/Anywaa .
      The Luo of Cameroon(mostly assimilated by Bantu with fewer speakers found in late 90s) .

  • @papd3532
    @papd3532 4 місяці тому

    In 1971 Idi Amin staged a coup against President Milton Obote and became president of Uganda .
    Milton Obote had criticized the apartheid regime in South Africa and the UK government detested his position on South Africa .
    Britain then supported Idi Amin’s coup against Milton Obote .

  • @papd3532
    @papd3532 4 місяці тому

    In 1985 regional/nepotistic disagreements between Uganda National Liberation Army Commander, General Tito Okello(Luo-Acholi) and President Milton Obote(Luo-Langi) over the promotion of Smith Acak Opon(Luo-Langi) to replace the late Gen Oyite Ojok(Luo-Langi) instead of General Bazillio Okello(Luo-Acholi) caused a coup against Milton Obote .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      Gen Tito Okello became president(1985-86) and Gen Bazillio Olara Okello became army commander . Daniel Moi of Kenya called peace talks in Nairobi between Yoweri Museveni and Gen Tito Okello .
      The agreement(witnessed by Ambassador Bethwell Kiplagat of Kenya) required Gen Tito Okello to be president and Yoweri Museveni to be vice president .
      Gen Tito Okello proposed his nephew, Oxford and Harvard Trained Fulbright Scholar, Uganda Lawyer exiled in Kenya Ambassador Olara Otunnu(Luo-Acholi) to be president after transition to civilian rule .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      Gen Bazillio Olara Okello proposed London based Oxford trained Urologist Dr Henry Obonyo(Luo-Acholi) to be president after military transition .
      THE TALKS COLLAPSED when Soldiers allied to Yoweri Museveni and led by Rwandans Paul Kagame and Fred Rwigema continued a push against Gen Tito Okello led Soldiers mostly Luo-Acholi , Luo-Langi in Uganda previously including Major Stephen Abili , Lt Col Wilson Okonga ,John Ogole and others .
      Yoweri Museveni deliberately sabotaged the talks with Daniel Moi in Nairobi Kenya and would thereafter maintain a strained relationship with Daniel Moi .

  • @youme1414
    @youme1414 4 місяці тому +2

    Extra judicial killings are barbaric acts still common in most African countries. They exist in Nigeria because the Nigerian Police are not there to protect innocent people and citizens take the law into their own hand. It is very annoying and uncivilized thing. I am not happy about that.

  • @papd3532
    @papd3532 4 місяці тому

    By 1990 Banyarwanda tutsi led by Fred Rwigema , who had been deputy defense minister in Uganda, had launched an offensive against president Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda, a Banyarwanda hutu .
    After the death of Fred Rwigema Paul Kagame returned to Rwanda and became head of Rwanda Patriotic Front, RPF (The precursor to RPF ,Rwanda Alliance for National Unity,RANU, was founded in 1979 in Nairobi Kenya by Banyarwanda tutsi exiles) .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      Juvenal Habyarimana plane was downed in 1994 . By 1996 Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni supported Laurent Kabila against President Mobutu Sese Seko in Congo .
      Laurent Kabila was also supported by Banyarwanda tutsi in Congo(Banyamulenge) who form the bulk of M23 led by Sultani Makenga and Laurent Nkunda . Laurent Kabila became President in Congo in 1997 .
      Paul Kagame became president in Rwanda in 2000 .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      The International Court has opened investigative prosecution files on Yoweri Museveni and son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba on war crimes in Northern and Eastern Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, CAR, Chad and DRC Congo together with human rights violations in Uganda .
      Uganda has already paid $65million in reparations to DRC Congo out of $325million demanded by UN for destabilizing Congo and Yoweri Museveni supporting rebel groups in Eastern DRC .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      On 27th February 2019 Rwanda closed its borders with Uganda . In 2011 Uganda soldiers occupied Islands in the shared L Victoria with Kenya .
      In 1987 Daniel Moi Closed borders with Uganda for Yoweri Museveni's support of Kenya rebel cells in Kenya and Libya against Kenya .

  • @eugene.dacosta.9241
    @eugene.dacosta.9241 4 місяці тому +2

    But where on this planet earth do u get an acre for 500 dollars..You boy, u over do it.

    • @WillieFungo
      @WillieFungo  4 місяці тому +2

      No, that's a normal price when you are buying large tracts of undeveloped agricultural land. You can even find it in the U.S. The more acres you buy at once, the lower the price. This isn't for people who just want to buy 2 or 3 acres, it's for people who buy 500 -1000 acres or more.

  • @papd3532
    @papd3532 4 місяці тому

    Yoweri Museveni became president of Uganda in 1986 after Gen Tito Okello who had staged a coup rebellion against Milton Obote .
    Paul Kagame became head of intelligence in Uganda and moved to the US FOR MILITARY TRAINING .

    • @papd3532
      @papd3532 4 місяці тому

      In 1987 a rebellion against Yoweri Museveni was launched by LRA Luo-Acholi led by JOSEPH KONY , Alice Auma Lakwena , Dominic Ongwen , Vincent Otti, Okot Odhiambo ,Raska Lukwiya ,Nixman Opuk Oryanga ,Ceaser Achellum ,Bunia Ochan,Lt Col Opiyo Sam,George Omona(Kony bodyguard) and others .

    • @michaelheery3085
      @michaelheery3085 3 місяці тому

      Paul kagame is Rwanda.

  • @kcchristop
    @kcchristop 4 місяці тому +1

    everything is political in uganda! Museveni won't sign and give money to the development of services in kampala because majority of the people there do not support him!

    • @siramike2654
      @siramike2654 2 місяці тому

      no wonder Kampala looks like shit hole. liters everywhere. the look of Gulu surely put Kampala to shame.

  • @asedriamin930
    @asedriamin930 4 місяці тому +1

    Wow!!!!!! I have followed the videos of Mr. Willie a lot, and all this time I have being thinking you're White, your voice and the gentle straight forward of how you explain things in your videos is no different from that of White people (not stereotyping or saying Whites are better) compared to a lot of African youtubers, well I'm an African but have got used to American youtubers, I don't mean to offend anybody with my comment, it's just an opinion 😂!!!!!.

    • @WillieFungo
      @WillieFungo  4 місяці тому +1

      Haha, no offense taken. Its an interesting observation

  • @absfinal
    @absfinal 4 місяці тому +2

    I didn't dare to visit any city in central or north uganda because of the rebels

    • @ronaldeastgate8988
      @ronaldeastgate8988 4 місяці тому +4

      There is nothing like rebels there any more

    • @absfinal
      @absfinal 4 місяці тому +1

      @@ronaldeastgate8988 it’s cause of all the travel advisories warning about the north route close the borders

    • @blackinton2526
      @blackinton2526 2 місяці тому +1

      They have been gone since 2004-05, it's more dangerous in Kampala with recent attacks from M23 rebels, Al shabab etc in recent times. When was the last time you heard of terrorist attacks in Northern Uganda Gulu district?

  • @TheFutureisSteampunk
    @TheFutureisSteampunk 3 місяці тому

    Wait wait wait... you believe that Kony killed 100,000 people? What evidence do you have to back up that claim?
    Also, don't you think there could have been someone who benefited financially by receiving aid for a war against rebels?

    • @WillieFungo
      @WillieFungo  3 місяці тому

      That is according to the U.N. Not me. If you disagree with the number, you will have to ask the U.N. for their evidence.

    • @TheFutureisSteampunk
      @TheFutureisSteampunk 3 місяці тому

      @@WillieFungo Sorry I'm just joking around. I believe that Kony didn't do anything and all the damage was caused by the guy he was fighting so that he could steal the aid money.

    • @siramike2654
      @siramike2654 2 місяці тому

      probably 80% of death would be from hunger and diseases.

  • @okechotete5839
    @okechotete5839 4 місяці тому

    gunshots are heard not only in africa