Just outside Mubaku Gate at Murchison Falls National Park, a working safari lodge offers a practical example of what Uganda’s native bamboo can do. At Murchison Falls Bamboo Village, bamboo forms the structural frame of a building used in everyday hospitality operations.
AFRIDGE, a founding organisation of Africane Bambusa Consortium (ABC), regards the village as a milestone in its work to advance Uganda’s bamboo industry. It describes the featured building as one of Africa’s largest with an all-bamboo structural frame. The lodge also reports that specialists from China’s bamboo industry contributed training and technical advice.
Where construction fits in the bamboo value chain
A building project gives growers and processors a practical brief. Builders need poles of suitable dimensions and quality, supplied consistently and prepared for their intended use. Meeting that demand brings growers, processors, designers and builders into the same supply chain. It also gives growers a clearer idea of what to produce for the construction market.
At Bamboo Village, visitors can see the material in a finished building. For AFRIDGE, that is the project’s contribution to the sector. It gives Uganda’s native bamboo a visible use at the construction end of the value chain.
From bamboo frame to finished lodge
