Kezikia Bumba, eighty year old President of the Abayudaya Men's Club, was one of the first converts to Judaism in the hills surrounding Mbale, Uganda, in the 1920s. Bumba learned about Judaism from the community's founder, Semei Kakungulu, and passed his knowledge to younger Abayudaya as a religious instructor and prayer leader. Today Kezikia Bumba still practices the Judaism Kakungulu taught him, blending Hebrew prayer with songs and chants in Luganda, the local language. Bumba works as a welder, and in his spare time welds menorahs for his Abayudaya neighbors.

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