Mugagga Lubowa was a Muganda from Mawookota. His father was Mazinga and his mother Nassubwa. Mugagga Lubowa, one of the pages persistently solicited by Mwanga without success, belonged to the Leopard (Ngo) Clan. His father, Mazinga, who later became a Protestant and took the name Isaiah, had three wives. The first, Tigalya, was a great-aunt of Seddu Kakinda, the royal bark-cloth maker. The second wife, Nassubwa, was the mother of the martyr and of four other children.

Mazinga, because of the relationship by marriage, through his first wife, received patronage and assistance from Seddu Kakinda who was also head of the Yam-fruit (Kkobe) Clan. Kakinda established Mazinga and his family upon one of his estates at Jjalambwa, in Mawokota County, where Mugagga was born about the year 1870.

Uganda Martyr Mugagga Lubowa

Following the common Kiganda practice, Mugagga was sent, as a young boy, to the household of Seddu Kakinda, who brought him up as his own child and presented him at Court when Mwanga became Kabaka. He was a page in the inner private courts of King Mwanga II and he was baptized on 26th May 1886 by Charles Lwanga. He was burnt alive in the Namugongo furnace on the Ascension Day, Thursday 3rd June 1886 at the age of between 16 and 17. Mugagga Lubowa is the patron of Clubs, Tailors and Community Development.

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