Dr. Michael Bazzebulala Nsimbi, MBE, (March 10, 1910 – March 5, 1994), considered the Father of Ganda

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 literature

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, was a pioneer of Luganda language

Luganda language

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, culture

Buganda

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 and written forms.

In the 1940s Nsimbi produced Ennono z’Abaganda (The Origins of Baganda), a foundational work in the development of Luganda orthography

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 and historiography

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. He established the Luganda Society

Luganda Society

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 in 1950 to preserve, popularise and promote the use of Luganda among both Baganda and non-Baganda, and worked with J. D. Chesswas

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 to produce text books for courses in Luganda language. Chairman of the society from 1963–1987, Nsimbi was a driving force, together with Dr. Livingstone Walusimbi, in establishing a Luganda language curriculum for the first time at Makeerere University in 1976, the country’s only university at the time. As a result a high school curriculum was introduced in 1979, and a curriculum for the National Teachers' Colleges in 1984. In 1989 he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree (Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa) from Makerere.

Nsimbi also encouraged the revivial of other local languages and cultures in the nation of Uganda. He was made an MBE

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in 1960, and was awarded the Independence Medal in 1963. He died on March 5, 1994, and the same year was honoured with the creation of the Dr. Nsimbi Scholarship Scheme in honor of his work in promoting Luganda language and culture.

Works

• Ennono z’Abaganda (The Origins of Baganda)
• Olulimi Oluganda
• An explanation of the Standard Orthography of Luganda (1958, 1963), with J. D. Chesswas
• The Kagenda series: Kitagenda ne Kagenda, Kagenda ne Banne, Kagenda ne banne bakola ki?
• Omweso Mu Uganda (Omweso, a Game People Play in Uganda) (1969)
• Luganda Names, Clans and Totems (1980)
• Njize Okusoma Kato Ne Nnakku Ekitabo (1990), with J. D. Chesswas
• Siwa Muto Lugero (1990)
• Amannya Amaganda N'Ennono Zaago (1990)

works published pseudonymously as "Binsangawano":
-Bonna Baasumagira?

-Bwali butamanya.