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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 .
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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 ...
It provided for a complex system of devolution within Uganda: the Kingdom of Buganda gained particularly strong powers of self-government; [1] [2] the Kingdoms of Bunyoro, Acoli, Tooro and Ankole, and the Territory of Busoga also gained the status of "federal states" and were permitted to retain their own legislatures; while the remaining ...
The journalist Henry Morton Stanley visited Buganda in 1875 and provided an estimate of Buganda troop strength. [10] Stanley counted 125,000 troops marching off on a single campaign to the east, where a fleet of 230 war canoes waited to act as auxiliary naval support. [10]
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 ad health workers. [3] She is the first Nnabagereka in the history of the kingdom to set up a fully fledged office.
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. [1] [2]
The two brothers headed towards Buganda Kingdom where an ambitious Kabaka in a young Kingdom was trying to surpass Bunyoro's might through Land Conquest wars. The Kabaka welcomed them and gave them land in Ssingo where they first settled. They were also appointed as makers of spears and other metallic equipment for use in wars.