Bujagali falls
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Bujagali (or Budhagali, according to the dialect of the Basoga tribe settling in this area) is a waterfall near Jinja in Uganda where the River Nile comes out of Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile.
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[edit] Proposed dam
The Bujagali Hydropower project is a proposed 250 MW hydropower facility on the Victoria Nile in the Republic of Uganda that would help address the country’s energy crisis. The project supports Uganda ’s broader development strategy, which focuses in large part on improving the investment climate to promote growth and reduce poverty. Others say the costly dam’s power would not meet the needs of the vast majority of the country’s population, would drown a sacred waterfall, and could do further harm to Lake Victoria, the world’s largest tropical lake.
[edit] The Bujagali doctor
The falls are said by local residents to be the site of a spirit, called the "Spirit of Bujabald," who protects the community by performing rituals at the falls. The spirit is embodied in a man, Jaja Bujabald, who lives next to the falls; he is the thirty-ninth person to be the spirit.[1]
The more than 80 year old man works at the same time as a doctor using preferably local plants and herbs. Lots of people report to have seen him walking over the water. Indeed he seems to be able to pass the falls where others don't dare to go.
During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, dead bodies, dumped in the lake, remained in the rocks of the falls; Bujagali removed and buried them.
[edit] References
- ^ Linaweaver, Stephen (1999). Falling for AES's plan? Uganda debates damming the Nile. Multinational Monitor 20(6).
[edit] External links
- World Bank Group and Bujagali
- Bujagali Photo Gallery of the Internationals Rivers Network
- The story of the Bujagali Hydropower Project
