Rukirabasaija Katera was

Omukama {{Unreferenced, date=December 2009 Omukama: often translated as "king of kings", (O)Mukama means in Bantu languages, Bantu (Banyoro-, Batoro- and other languages) something like "superior milkman/milkbringer". The title "Omukama" is used in the regi ...

of the

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, from 1876 until 1877. He was the ninth Omukama of Tooro.

Claim to the throne

He was the sixth (6th) son of Kasunga Kyebambe Nyaika, Omukama of Tooro, from 1866 until 1871 and from 1871 until 1872. No mention is made of his mother. He was raised to the throne by the Tooro people, when his elder brother Kakende Nyamuyonjo failed to return from

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in 1876.

Married life

No mention of his married life is made in the available literature.

Offspring

It is not known how many children were fathered by Omukama Isingoma Rukidi II, or who those children were.

His reign

Omukama Katera ruled until 1877 when his elder brother, Rububi Kyebambe II returned to the Tooro Kingdom and deposed him in 1877.

The final years

It is not known where and how Omukama Rukidi II died or what the cause of death was.

Succession table

References

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