Luzira kai

Luzira Head wanda aka fi sani da Mpanga Head shine sunan shugaban terracotta da aka samu a Luzira, Uganda. An kiyasta cewa yana da shekaru kusan 1000, yana ɗaya daga cikin tsofaffin sassaka na kudu da sahara (Sub-sahara) har yanzu da aka gano a Afirka. Tun daga shekarun 1931, ya kasance wani ɓangare na tarin al'adun gargajiya na Gidan Tarihi na Biritaniya. 

 Bayani 
Luzira Head wani nau'i ne na musamman na mace. Kan yana da kunkuntar sosai, idanu masu fitowa da baki tare da ƙananan hanci. Tare da goshi akwai raunuka uku. gashi yana da matted kuma yana faɗowa a kowane ɓangare na kai. An kuma sami ƙananan ɓangaren adadi a lokacin binciken asali. Yana da siffar tripod kuma kamar kai yana da rami kuma an yi shi da yumɓu.

 Ganowa 
Masanin ilimin ƙasa  na Biritaniya Edward James Wayland ne ya tono kan da gangar jikin, tare da wasu kayan tarihi da dama, tsakanin shekarun 1929 zuwa 1930. An gano su ne a wani gidan yari da ke wurin Luzira, da ke wajen birnin Kampala na ƙasar Uganda. Sauran abubuwan da aka gano a lokacin sun haɗa da tarkacen tukwane sama da ɗari, guda goma sha huɗu, tukwane, mashin karfe da gatari mai kama da labarin Ibrahim da gumaka. Amma abin takaici ba a san inda gatari Luzira yake ba. Ana hasashen cewa wurin ya kasance tsohon wurin ibada na Buganda. Radio-carbon dating ya nuna cewa abubuwan da aka gano a wurin sun kai kimanin shekaru dubu. 

 Manazarta 

 Kara karantawa 
John Mack (ed), Africa, Arts and Cultures, London 2005*Braunholtz, H.J. 1936. Pottery figure from Luzira, Uganda. Man 36: 71–2. 
Wayland, E.J., M.C. Burkitt & H.J. Braunholtz. 1933. Archaeological discoveries at Luzira. Man 33: 29–47.
 *Reid, A. & C.Z. Ashley. 2008. A context for the Luzira Head. Antiquity 82 (315): 99–112.