Ntare VI of Ankole
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Ntare VI (January 10, 1940) is the Omugabe of Nkore or Ankole and the 27th of the Bahinda dynasty. His coronation took place on November 20, 1993 and was subsequently nullified by the NRM government He is the first king after the kingship had been abolished 1967. He has five children: Alexander Kahaya Siinga, Emmanuel Ruhinda Siima, Fredrick Jojo Wamala Namara, Charles Rwebishengye Aryaija Ntomi ya Rugazinda and Caroline Keza Korwizi.
The kingship in Ankole is still not restored, contrary to the other kingdoms in Uganda Toro, Buganda and Bunyoro. President Museveni himself nullified the coronation in 1993, saying the people of Ankole had to decide. At the moment John Patrick Barigye (the King's Christian name) is living a rather quiet life in his palace in Mbarara, Ankole, Western Uganda. He is the patron of the Nkore Trust Foundation, an organisation that is trying to restore the kingship in Ankole.
John Patrick Barigye graduated in economics from Cambridge University in England in 1962 and has subsequently been ambassador in West Germany and the Vatican.[1]
