Sukuma Museum

Bunogi bwa Kaya ni Bunogi bwa Banu

August 4, 2026 by Filbert Faustine

🗣️ Sukuma Proverb Bunogi bwa Kaya ni Bunogi bwa Banu 🇹🇿 Kiswahili Usafi wa makazi huonyesha ustaarabu na uwajibikaji wa watu wake. Katika jamii ya Wasukuma, mazingira safi yanaonyesha heshima kwa wageni, jamii na urithi wa kitamaduni. Kutunza usafi wa Makumbusho ya Wasukuma ni sehemu ya kulinda historia yetu kwa vizazi vijavyo. 🇬🇧 English A … Read more

Neno la shukrani.

February 1, 2026 by Filbert Faustine

Kwa moyo wa dhati Taasisi ya Makumbusho ya Kisukuma Bujora inapenda kuwashukuru kila mmoja kwa mchango wake kama kupiga kura, kuisemea, kuitembelea na namna zote hata kupata tuzo ya ” The best Tourist Attraction, private owned” yaani kituo bora cha utalii chenye umiliki wa binafsi” Hii ni heshima kubwa tuliyopewa nanyi. Ni mwaliko wetu kuendelea … Read more

Vote of Thanks

February 1, 2026 by Filbert Faustine

With a sincere heart, Bujora Sukuma Museum would like to express its heartfelt gratitude to everyone for their valuable support—through voting, speaking about us, visiting us, and all other forms of contribution—that led to us winning the award for “The Best Tourist Attraction, Privately Owned” at the Serengeti Awards. This is a great honor bestowed … Read more

Kageye Historical Site

October 14, 2025 by Sukuma Musuem, Mchele Gwa Njingi

As a collaborator with Bujora Cultural centre (Sukuma Museum), we deeply value the site's rich history—rooted in Sukuma chiefdoms, the missionaries' route, Kageye Historical site has been underdeveloped for a long time especially after the death of Fr. David Clement who started Bujora Museum. In the year 1875, explorer Henry Morton Stanley surveyed the geographical area of the village of Kageye and wrote that this village is located 25 miles (39 kilometers) from the shores of Nyanza or Lake Victoria, east of the city of Mwanza, near the small town of Kayenze, 16 miles (24 kilometers) from the Sukuma museum in Bujora. Kageye is a village under the Sukuma Kingdom. This area have been established about 400 years ago by a notable person named Nkanda, who was known for appointing his nephews, the Babinza, as chiefs. When Kageye began to be known and famous, the Sukuma Kingdom was under Chief Nkingwa Machimu, who lived in the village of Ng’wakipili, now called Kibambi, near Nyanguge. The chief's assistant in the Kageye area at that time was called Kaduma Nguku. In East Africa, the slave trade was carried out by Arabs. This trade continued worldwide despite the outcry from figures like Dr. Livingstone. By 1830, the slave trade had been abolished in the British Empire In 1845, the Sultan of Zanzibar also announced a ban on the transportation of slaves, although slavery remained legal within his rule. Kageye was very famous for the slave trade involving slaves from Buganda and Ukerewe. In 1890, a German named Stuhlmann banned the slave trade at the Arab stations of Masanza, Magu, and Kayenze by directly prohibiting human trafficking. Following this action, Stuhlmann found hundreds of freed slaves, many of whom were not Sukuma. There were also those from Kilwa, as well as Wabemba and Wagogo. The brutal legacy of the Arab slave trade (where captives from Uganda and northwest Tanzania were held before their journey to Bagamoyo and Zanzibar), and the graves of early explorers and missionaries.

Read about the article about the historial site at Kageye: Kageye Historical Site

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October 14, 2025October 9, 2025 by Filbert Faustine

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WATEMI WA KISUKUMA BULABO 2021

October 14, 2025June 7, 2021 by Filbert Faustine

Miongoni wa WATEMI walio hudhuria shere za Ekaristi na Mavuno BULABO 2021 JUNE 6

BULABO 2021

October 14, 2025June 7, 2021 by Filbert Faustine

Baada ya misa ya Ekaristi takatifu, Ndipo muunganisho wa sherehe za mavuno ya wasukuma BULABO 6JUNE 2021 katika kituo cha utamaduni bujora.

Bujora feautured in leading Danish newspaper

January 1, 2018December 26, 2017 by Sukuma Musuem, Mchele Gwa Njingi

Between christmas and newyear 2017, one of the leading newspaper in Denmark, Politiken, published an article about Bujora, Sukuma Museum.

The article, written by danish senior reporter Dav Jacobsen, is a very picturesque article about the warsha course at Bujora, with beautiful pictures from the course in january 2017.

Video from Bujora by Tanzania Tourist Board

May 8, 2017 by Sukuma Musuem, Mchele Gwa Njingi

Back in august 2014, TTB was visiting Bujora and the ‘Lake region’ to make video about the tourist attractions in the area.
The video is presented at TTB’s portal “TANZANIA – The soul of Africa” found here: www.tanzaniatourism.com

Swedish documentary on Sukuma!

May 8, 2017March 7, 2017 by Sukuma Musuem, Mchele Gwa Njingi