BY CORRESPONDENT
22nd October 2013
The site, on the outskirts of Lake Victoria (Nyanza) near Kayenze beach, is also a cultural heritage and was a Christian evangelization centre in the lake zone in the 1870s.
Speaking recently during a one-day tour to mark the 14th anniversary of the late Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, the trip organizer, Rev. Fr. George Pelz (M.Afr), and lecturers from the Tourism and History Departments of SAUT, declared Kageye Port as a ‘sleeping giant.’
They said the location has the potential of attracting many foreign tourists from around the globe as it bears important historical and cultural significance.
“It also has footprints of European explorers like Henry Morton Stanley and Christian Missionaries,” said Fr. George Pelz when he briefed visitors at the site recently.
Prof. Spillane, from the Business Administration Department, said relics of missionaries who paved the way for many Christian sects in Tanzania and Uganda, spearheaded by Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches are to be found at the site.
However, it was admitted that among factors that have led to the Kageye site’s low profile is conflict of ownership between the Catholic Church in Mwanza and Magu District Council.
Anglican cleric Canon Daniel Kipili from Nyakato Bible School in Mwanza testifies that he was present during the official opening of the site by the late Mwalimu Nyerere in January 1981. He cautioned that an attempt to hijack the site from the church’s control is unlawful.
Mentioning several other attractions at the site, Canon Kipili spoke of the tomb of the Anglican Cleric John Smith of the Church Mission Society (C.M.S) and pavilions depicting the Slave Trade by Arab and Swahilis to and from Uganda, Kagera and Ukerewe to Bagamoyo.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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