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The Mind of Buganda: Documents of the Modern History of an African Kingdom (1971), primary sources; Reid, Richard. Political Power in Pre-colonial Buganda: Economy, Society and Warfare in the 19th Century (2002) Rowe, John A. "Eyewitness Accounts of Buganda History: The Memoirs of Ham Mukasa and His Generation." Ethnohistory 36 (1989): 61–71.
Buganda is a Bantu kingdom within Uganda. The kingdom of the Baganda people, Buganda is the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day East Africa, consisting of Uganda's Central Region, including the Ugandan capital Kampala. The 14 million Baganda (singular Muganda; often referred to simply by the root word and adjective, Ganda) make ...
The Baganda [3] (endonym: Baganda; singular Muganda) also called Waganda, are a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda.Traditionally composed of 52 clans (although since a 1993 survey, only 46 are officially recognised), the Baganda are the largest people of the Bantu ethnic group in Uganda, comprising 16.5 percent of the population at the time of the 2014 ...
The Buganda Crisis, also called the 1966 Mengo Crisis, the Kabaka Crisis, or the 1966 Crisis, domestically, was a period of political turmoil that occurred in Buganda.It was driven by conflict between Prime Minister Milton Obote and the Kabaka of Buganda, Mutesa II, culminating in a military assault upon the latter's residence that drove him into exile.
Naggalabi Buddo. Naggalabi Hill (at times written as Nagalabi) is a cultural, religious and heritage site where the kings of Buganda Kingdom are crowned. [1] It is also believed to be the place where the first king of Buganda Kingdom won the battle for the crown after a fight with his brother, Prince Bemba. He declared that all successive kings ...
The current Nnabagereka is a champion of human rights, women's rights and the rights of children, especially the girl child. She is an admired role model in Buganda, where she is referred to as "Maama wa Buganda", meaning "Mother of the Buganda Nation". Recently she has been a vocal supporter of better working conditions for government teachers ...
In Buganda's capital, Lubaga, Stanley found a well-ordered town of about 40,000 surrounding the king's palace, which was situated atop a commanding hill. [9] A wall more than four kilometers in circumference surrounded the palace compound, which was filled with grass-roofed houses, meeting halls, and storage buildings. [ 9 ]
Kabaka of Buganda. Kabaka is the title of the king of the Kingdom of Buganda. [1]: 142–143 According to the traditions of the Baganda, they are ruled by two kings, one spiritual and the other secular. The spiritual, or supernatural, king is represented by the Royal Drums, regalia called Mujaguzo. A s they always exist, Buganda will always ...