Why don’t Tutsi/Hima men marry women from other #Ugandan tribes?

"I am pleased to attend this wedding. Since Uganda and Rwanda got peace, there are a lot of weddings taking place. The people have appreciated the need to marry when they are young. I came here to bless these youth; Moses Kananura and Linesi Umutesi."

Museveni at the wedding of the son of Donat Kananura at Butogota in Kanungu district - 3/9/3017. The bride is the daughter of Mbonigaba Murigo of Ruhengyere in Rwanda.  Donant Kananura is a business tycoon and both an NRA and RPF war hero. He is currently feuding over the leadership of the Banyarwanda community in Uganda. During a meeting with Banyarwanda community in Uganda at State House Kampala in January 2012, Museveni assured his visitor, Paul Kagame that he was to mediate in resolving the leadership wrangles. During the same meeting, Kagame advised the Banyarwanda in Uganda not to be diverted by small things but to focus on 'bigger issues'.

Since time immemorial, Ugandan men from all corners of the country have ventured into marrying from the Hima and Tutsi ethnic communities. Such intermarriages have been common more with Tutsi than Hima owing to the former's economic hardships as a result of migratory circumstances. It is a tested survival instinct that was adopted and thus marriages of convenience. Even the recently reported wives’ bonanza in Bunyoro was just one way; strictly Banyarwanda women to Banyoro men. On the contrary, it is a fact that the Hima and Tutsi men strictly marry women of their respective tribes.

The only known isolated instances of Hima/Tutsi men marrying women from outside their respective ethnic communities are those of Col. Bright Rwamirama, Col. Kagyezi and the Mathew Rukikaire family who married Amama Mbabazi's daughter. The discrimination and humiliation suffered by these few women who have dared venturing into matrimonial engagement with Hima/Tutsi men is immense. It is also interesting to note that it’s rare for pure Hima men to marry Tutsi women. In September 2008, permanent Minister, Sam Kuteesa, broke the record when he remarried Edith Gasaana a Tutsi from Rwanda.

Someone will as usual brand this issue as being sectarian but it’s a fact. Why is it a taboo for a Hima or Tutsi man to marry a Muganda or a Japadhola woman but it’s okay for a Tutsi girl to be married to a wealthy Itesot boy? WARNING:  Such a marriage survives only as long as the man's wealth subsists.

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