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“I left Tooro when I was just three years old to study in Buganda. Whenever I returned to Tooro for the holidays, my cousins would laugh at my Rutooro and tease me about the way I spoke.” Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire Akiiki(Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire Akiiki), Prime Minister (Omuhikirwa) of the...

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