Way back in September 1944, Mzee Amosi Kaguta and Esteeri Kokundeka travelled from Kyaamate to a government hospital in Mbarara in preparation of the birth of H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni a child that would later become a treasure of the nation and Africa as a whole.
The president was born on 15th September, 1944 the actual date which he struggled to find out in his youthful era. ln 1976 after the defeat of Idi Amin, Museveni started seeking for the exact date of birth starting from a hospital in Mbarara where he was born from, unfortunately the records were not available. 

In his second edition of the book titled “Sowing The Mustard Seed”, he narrates on how his dear mother the late Esteeri Kokundeka told him how he was born before the mass vaccination of cattle known as ekikatu of ensharamatu which took place before November, he further credits the then veterinary guard called Serugyendo who informed him that it usually happened between 24th and 28th in Ntungamo.

Eventually, one old lady from his village called Tophus Bwankuuku knew when the president was born and according to her data it was as both similar to Maama Esteeri and the veterinary guard hence Museveni is believed to have been born on 15th September. His name Museveni was adopted from “Abaseveni,” Ugandan soldiers who served in World War II, his father being part of that group, and the family adopted the name to honor that connection
Museveni’s ancestral home is Kyaamate in Ntungamo district, he belongs to the Basiita clan from the lineage of his great fore fathers Kabuguma Kanyina ncweende Rubanza (his grandfather), Kashaanku ka Kyamugaanga (great grandfather) and Kyamugaanga kya Mugurwa.

He recalls in his childhood to have started understanding at 4 months on an event where he explains how his mother had gone with him to collect fresh grass for covering the floor of the huts sitting room and the bedsteads where she carefully laid him on the ground facing upwards on a folded cloth which formed a small mattress to start collecting the grass from the soil using her hands starting near from where he was and moving away, he got worried because she was leaving him alone. However, she was in his view because he was seeing her from the corner of his eyes, that’s why he believes that he was less than seven months.
During his childhood, he spent most of his time with his great grandmother Nyina-ncweende who taught him informal education through story telling that linked him to the pre-colonial society of Ankole, colonialists and myth. She would once in a while tell him horror stories which were in a monological form of conversations and all the little Museveni did was to listen attentively for example the stories about pythons, crocodiles, spitting cobras and Asians who stayed in Ntungamo trading center whom she was convinced that they ate people.

Nyina-ncweende in many other stories narrated to him an amazing story of a clever man who always travelled with a sharp knife that when he was trapped and swallowed by a python, he bided his time and when he was safely inside the stomach of the reptile, he slit open its stomach from inside and came outside. Through this, her precaution was to always move around with a sharp knife as an incident against being ingested by a python. 
She used to oil him with cow ghee where her protocol procedure was to start with arms and never the legs with the idea that when she starts with the legs, this would superstitiously encourage him to run away from enemies hence starting with arms in order to fight and not use his legs to run. 

His grandmother used to prepare special meals that gave a sweet aroma; however, according to their traditional beliefs, Museveni was not allowed to eat until the age of seven years but only drink milk.
He had contented himself with other traditional types of milk products and he occasionally participated in eating blood cake locally known as Enjuba and buringyiri which was boiled blood mixed with ghee and milk. Nyinancweende had declared that according to the ancient custom of cattle keepers of Ankole, food would spoil the stomach so he regularly started eating food at about seven or eight years.

As traditional cattle keepers, his family moved from long lived ancestral home Ntungamo to Ruhuunga, Kashaari in 1960, to Keigoshoora in 1961 and then towards the end of 1961 they moved to Katebe. After his father giving him 22 heifers and cows, Museveni moved to Akairungu near Rwenkaanja Rubaya sub county in 1965 with his mother, his brother Caleb Akandwanaho and sister Kajubiri. Finally, he bought an abandoned banana plantation located in Rwakitura where they have settled until date.