Kakule William

Kakule William's death was announced on Sunday 8 November 2026. The news first appeared on the official Wakaliwood Instagram account, and the studio's founder and director, Nabwana I.G.G., then posted on X: "Darkness in Wakaliwood family.. RIP captain." The post drew more than 17,000 likes and over 200,000 views.

The exact date of death, the place of death, his age and the cause of death had not been made public as of 9 November 2026, according to Pearl Wire Media. Nile Post, MBU and Pearl Wire Media in Uganda reported his death, and Wikipedia's Who Killed Captain Alex? article was updated to note it. Fans of the film around the world shared clips, fan art and tributes to the man who played Captain Alex.

Details of Kakule William's early life, including his date and place of birth, his parents and his schooling, have not been made public. He was Ugandan, and his film work was centred on Wakaliga, a suburb of Kampala, where Ramon Film Productions (Wakaliwood) is based.

Kakule William is credited as the lead actor of Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010), the Nabwana I.G.G. feature from Ramon Film Productions that brought Wakaliwood international attention. He played Captain Alex, an elite officer of the Uganda People's Defence Force sent to destroy the Tiger Mafia of the crime boss Richard (Ernest Sseruyna). His co-stars included Charles Bukenya as Bruce U, Prossy Nakyambadde as Ritah, G. Puffs as Puffs and VJ Emmie as the Video Joker narrator.

Wakaliwood productions were made with almost no money. Nabwana edited on a computer he assembled from old parts, guns and camera equipment were built from scrap metal, squibs were made from condoms filled with red food colouring, and actors brought their own costumes. AllMovie lists Kakule William as active in film from 2010 to 2019.

Who Killed Captain Alex? was shot in January 2010, after production began in late 2009 in Nateete, and was released on 1 March 2010. It runs 68 minutes and is in Luganda and English. The reported budget was under 200 US dollars; producer Alan Ssali Hofmanis later said it was 85 dollars.

In the plot, Captain Alex sets up camp in Wakaliga, raids a Tiger Mafia drug deal and captures Richard's brother. Richard sends a spy to seduce Alex in his tent, but Alex is killed by an unknown source before the mafia arrives. The killer is never identified, and the title question became the film's running joke and a long-running fan debate, with theories pointing at Richard, the spy, and even the Video Joker.

The Luganda trailer posted on 30 January 2010 went viral. Nabwana then commissioned an English commentary track by VJ Emmie for international audiences, and the full film was uploaded to the Official Wakaliwood YouTube channel in March 2015, where it has passed ten million views. The film sold more than 10,000 DVDs in Uganda, played the Fantasia festival in Montreal in 2015, and was released on Blu-ray by the American Genre Film Archive in 2019 alongside Bad Black.

Kakule William kept a low public profile. No details of a spouse, children or other relatives had been made public at the time of his death. To the Wakaliwood studio and its founder he was part of the "Wakaliwood family", the phrase Nabwana I.G.G. used when announcing his death.

As Captain Alex, Kakule William became the face of a film that put Ugandan do-it-yourself action cinema on the world map. The BBC called Nabwana "Uganda's Tarantino" after the film's success, Screen Rant and other outlets listed reasons to watch it, and some critics have described it as one of the most important African films of the century because of the passion and determination behind it. The film is credited with inspiring the Ugandan Knuckles meme of 2018, and its title question remains a staple of internet humour.

When his death was announced, fans described him as a man who played an unsung role in action movie history and who helped prove that, no matter the hardship, filmmaking can be for everyone.

The full Who Killed Captain Alex? film, with VJ Emmie's commentary, is available on the Official Wakaliwood YouTube channel, alongside the original 2010 trailer. The film has been the subject of video essays and reviews, including Accented Cinema's "What Makes a Movie Good?" and I Hate Everything's "The Search For The Worst", and of a 2015 Vice documentary on Wakaliwood. It is also available on Prime Video and on the AGFA Wakaliwood Supa Action Vol. 1 Blu-ray, which offers the film with or without the Video Joker narration and subtitles in 11 languages.