Kitikifumba is a neighborhood in

Kira Municipality Kira Town, a municipality in the Wakiso District of the Central Region of Uganda, is the country's second-largest city by population. It is administered by the Kira Town Council, an urban local government. Location Kira town council was elev ...

, Kyaddondo County, Wakiso District, in the Central Region of Uganda.

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Kitikifumba is bordered by

Bulindo Bulindo is a neighborhood in Kira Municipality, Kyaddondo County, Wakiso District, in the Central Region of Uganda. Location Bulindo is bordered by Nakweero to the north, Kitukutwe to the northeast, Kigulu to the east, Mulawa to the south, ...

to the east, Mulawa to the southeast, downtown Kira to the south, the village of Seeta to the west, Namavundu to the north-west, and

Kitukutwe Kitukutwe is a neighborhood in Kira Municipality, Kyaddondo County, Wakiso District, in Central Uganda. Location Kitukutwe is bordered by Nakasajja to the north, Kasaayi (in Mukono District) to the east, and Nsasa to the south. Kigulu and Bul ...

to the north. This is approximately , by road, northwest of downtown Kira, where the town council offices are located. Kitikifumba is approximately , by road, north-east of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda. The coordinates of Kitikifumba are 0°25'14.0"N, 32°38'05.0"E (Latitude:0.420556; Longitude:32.634722).

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Up until the 1990s, Kitikifumba and neighboring

were villages with scattered low income residences and subsistence farms. In 2001, the village was incorporated into Kira Town, the second-largest urban center in Uganda with a population of 313,761, according to the August 2014 national census. During the 21st century, it has developed into an upper middle-class residential neighborhood with scattered business locations among the residences. In 2011, the government opened the

Shimoni Primary Teachers College Shimoni Primary Teachers College (SPTC), is a public college that trains primary school teachers in Uganda. The college has an attached primary school, Shimoni Demonstration School, where the trainee teachers practice and sharpen their teaching sk ...

, which had been relocated from Kampala. The college, built at an estimated cost of US$4 million (UGX:8 billion at that time), has a capacity of 450 student-teachers. During the construction, the Shimoni student-teachers were accommodated at Nyondo Teacher Training College in Mbale. The teacher training college opened in January 2011. In January 2018,

Shimoni Demonstration School Shimoni Primary Teachers College (SPTC), is a public college that trains primary school teachers in Uganda. The college has an attached primary school, Shimoni Demonstration School, where the trainee teachers practice and sharpen their teaching s ...

, the teaching school for the Shimoni Primary Teachers College, was opened at Kitikifumba, adjacent to the college.

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Uganda: Teachers College At Kira to Be Ready in June
{{Wakiso District Kira Town Populated places in Central Region, Uganda Cities in the Great Rift Valley

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