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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 ...
Buganda grew rapidly in power in the eighteenth and nineteenth century becoming the dominant kingdom in the region. Buganda started to expand in the 1840s, and used fleets of war canoes to establish "a kind of imperial supremacy" over Lake Victoria and the surrounding regions. Subjugating weaker peoples for cheap labor, Buganda grew into a ...
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 ...
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 ...
He was born at Mulago Hospital. [3] He is the son of Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Muteesa II, Kabaka of Buganda, who reigned between 1939 and 1969 and first President of the Independent Uganda 1962-1966. His mother was Omuzaana Kabejja Sarah Nalule of the Nkima clan. Muwenda Mutebi II in County Kerry, in Ireland on ...
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.
Kabaka's Gwanga Mujje Drums. The Kasubi Tombs in Kampala, Uganda, is the site of the burial grounds for four kabakas (kings of Buganda) and other members of the Baganda royal family. As a result, the site remains an important spiritual and political site for the Ganda people, as well as an important example of traditional architecture.
Buganda is a traditional kingdom in modern-day Uganda located in the central region of the East African country. The current Katikkiro is Mr. Charles Peter Mayiga of the Mutima clan and was appointed by the current monarch, the Kabaka of Buganda , Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda in May 2013, replacing Engineer John Baptist Walusimbi.