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Christopher Kibanzanga

Ugandan politician and a prince from the Kingdom of Rwenzururu

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ24572740 ↗
Source-derived summary

Christopher Kibanzanga (born 22 January 1967) is a Ugandan politician. He is the State Minister for Agriculture in the Ugandan Cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016, replacing Vincent Ssempijja, who became Cabinet Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries. As of 2017, Kibanzanga is the serving Member of Parliament representing Bughendera County in Bundibugyo District.

Kibanzanga was first elected to the Parliament of Uganda in 1996. In 2001 he joined Reform Agenda, which later became Forum for Democratic Change, before defecting in August 2015. He has served as the Shadow Minister of Information and National Guidance in the Parliament of Uganda and as Shadow minister for the Presidency and Anti-corruption; in March 2010, he was the acting Leader of the Opposition.

In 2011, having represented the constituency for ten years, Kibanzanga chose not to stand again in Busongora South and ran instead for the district (LC 5) chairmanship, losing to incumbent Mawa Muhindo. He belongs to National Resistance Movement political party.

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“Christopher Kibanzanga” enters the record as ugandan politician and a prince from the Kingdom of Rwenzururu. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Christopher, Kibanzanga and Ugandan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 2016, 2017, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Christopher, Kibanzanga and Ugandan.
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“Christopher Kibanzanga” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Christopher, Kibanzanga and Ugandan provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24572740. The first chronological checks are 1967, 2016, 2017 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Christopher Kibanzanga” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.