Within a period of thirteen years from 1884 until 1897, Buganda witnessed the change of leadership at Mengo, six times, which was unprecedented in the kingdom.
The school’s location and appearance are thus described by A. K. Sempa in his 1941 article African Schools. The first building was situated between the present Namirembe (now Mengo) Primary School and the Cathedral (Namirembe).
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So in 1895, an elementary mixed school known as Kayanja was founded at Mengo, making it one of the first standard formal schools in Uganda.
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The magazine points out that most of the first students who enrolled in the first Mengo School (Kayanja) became school masters posted by Church Councils to rural areas.
The Mengo Palace on Mengo Hill is connected to the Bulange on Namirembe Hill by a straight road, about a mile long, called Kabaka Anjagala Road (The King Loves Me).
Barely one year after the coronation of the Omukama Olimi III, Obote attacked the Buganda Palace, sending Sir Edward Muteesa II in exile, and declared himself president.
The university started operating in 2001 as the Grotius School of Law and Professional Studies , with a campus in Mengo, a neighborhood within Kampala, Uganda's capital city.
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The university maintains a smaller campus at Mengo, Lubaga Division, in Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country.
Ochieng Nelly Mengo was born in Nyanza in 1950 and developed interest in music while still at school.