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	Baganda - Encyclopedia.com
		Bagandas comprise about 17% of the population and have the country's highest standard of living and literacy rate.
		The Baganda community is the longest established and...
		It was in deference to the Baganda that, within the framework of the first...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Baganda.html (1073 words)

	Baganda
		The Baganda people of Uganda are sometimes referred to as The King's Men because of the significance of the role of their king—the Kabaka in their political, social, and cultural institutions.
		The former Kingdom of Buganda, which today is the area occupied by the Baganda, is bounded on the north by the former Kingdom of Bunyoro and on the east by the Nile River.
		The Baganda are the largest tribe in Uganda, and the Kingdom of Buganda was the largest of the former kingdoms.
	www.everyculture.com /wc/Tajikistan-to-Zimbabwe/Baganda.html (2705 words)

	Uganda Baganda - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, ...
		Baganda civil servants also helped administer other ethnic groups, and Uganda's early history was written from the perspective of the Baganda and the colonial officials who became accustomed to dealing with them.
		Baganda children, some as young as three years old, are sent to live in the homes of their social superiors, both to cement ties of loyalty among parents and to provide avenues for social mobility for their children.
		Even in the 1980s, Baganda children were considered psychologically better prepared for adulthood if they had spent several years living away from their parents at a young age.
	www.photius.com /countries/uganda/society/uganda_society_baganda.html (1200 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Baganda in Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Baganda rioters wanted the right to bypass government price controls on cotton exports, the removal of the Asian monopoly on cotton ginning, the right to have their own representatives in local government replace chiefs appointed by the British.
		In November, the Baganda king was deported to Britain and a state of emergency was declared.
		The Baganda were not mourning the death of their king or any member of the royal family.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=50003 (3566 words)

	Baganda in the Diaspora
		Baganda from across the globe, joined by relatives and friends, will meet to review the state of our motherland, get to know each other, discuss Buganda's future, and celebrate our culture and achievements.
		Later in 1998, as a follow up to the convention's resolutions, Ggwanga Mujje started a scholarship fund for orphaned children in Buganda and is currently sponsoring 3 children: one in Secondary School, and two in Primary Schools.
		To enable the Baganda and their sympathisers to gather together and to assist each other in times of joy or sorrow.
	www.buganda.com /diaspora.htm (1860 words)

	Baganda: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		The Baganda, whose kingdom was the most advanced and whose lands in the...the palace of the Kabaka, the popular her editary king of the Baganda, who were Ugandas largest and most prosperous tribe.
		Bagandas comprise about 30% of the population and have the countrys...Speke and James Grant, dealt with Mutesa, the powerful Bagandan kabaka of the Victorian era.
		Among the Baganda of central Africa it was customary for a mother to bathe her newborn child by the light of the first full moon.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/baganda.jsp?l=B&p=1 (1374 words)

	AFRICA - Explore the Regions - Great Lakes
		Baganda drums come in different sizes depending on their significance and use.
		For that reason, the most important Baganda drums belong to the kabaka, the revered Baganda king.
		This song tells a humorous tale about a Baganda man who is taken to a hospital and eventually dies after taking various medications.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/africa/explore/greatlakes/greatlakes_music.html (238 words)

	Uganda
		The people of Bunyoro were particularly aggrieved, having fought the Baganda and the British; having a substantial section of their heartland annexed to Buganda as the "lost counties;" and finally having "arrogant" Baganda administrators issuing orders, collecting taxes, and forcing unpaid labor.
		Obote's rivals for leadership within the UPC, supported by some Baganda politicians and others who were hostile to Obote, used the evidence revealed by Amin's casual bank deposit to claim that the prime minister and his closest associates were corrupt and had conducted secret foreign policy for personal gain, in the amount of £25,000 each.
		Baganda recognize at a very young age that their superiors, too, live in a world of rules.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/uganda/all.html (18805 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Baganda in Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While the Baganda have a long history of seeking greater autonomy, there is little evidence of this escalating into rebellion.
		At independence in 1962, the Baganda had the highest standard of living and literacy rate in the country.
		The Baganda, under the leadership of Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi, have asked for a federal system of governance for Baganda, a demand that has met with some opposition from other parts of the country.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=50003 (467 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buganda is the kingdom of the 52 clans of the Baganda people, the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda.
		The major exception to this rule were the Roman Catholic Baganda who had formed their own party, the Democratic Party (DP), led by Benedicto Kiwanuka.
		Shocked by the results, the Baganda separatists, who formed a political party called Kabaka Yekka, had second thoughts about the wisdom of their election boycott.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Buganda (3459 words)

	East Africa Living Encyclopedia
		The Baganda immediately offered their services to the British as administrators over their recently conquered neighbors, an offer which was attractive to an economically minded colonial administration.
		Baganda agents served as local tax collectors and labor organizers in areas such as Kigezi, Mbale, and Bunyoro.
		The people of Bunyoro, who had fought both the Baganda and the British, were particularly aggrieved by this new domination.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /NEH/uhistory.htm (2278 words)

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		One tradition asserts that the Baganda are descendants of Kintu.
		One could possibly gather that the Baganda came to occupy Buganda from two main directions: one from the east by way of Busoga and another from the west by way of Bunyoro.
		There is a tradition among the Baganda that the Balubaale cult was introduced by Kabaka Nakibinge to strengthen his authority and that he combined both political and religious functions for that matter.
	www.myuganda.co.ug /about/baganda.php (639 words)

	UPC ..::\|::.. Uganda Peoples Congress
		While the British consciously used the Baganda, to the Baganda their being used was mistaken for the continuation of their dominance and expansion.
		In captivity in Buganda her relationship to the Baganda was that of a captive and hostile member of the dynasty of Buganda's arch enemy.
		The Baganda had not only lost the leadership of the forces then moving history at the time, but their opponents had the upper hand in the Wild Committee which was setting up the ground rules for independence.
	www.upcparty.net /upcparty/roots_adhola.htm (19516 words)

	Part 2: Methods and ApproachesThe Importance of Cosmology: International Development Research Centre
		Finally, the Baganda had a pantheistic outlook of continuity and an attitude of submission to nature, contrary to the western Judeo-Christian ethic of dominating nature.
		In the day-to-day activities of the Baganda, there was always deliberate action to protect the structure, functions, and diversity of the natural systems on which species depend.
		The Baganda had control over the use of wild plants and animals, forests, and measures to ensure sustainable fishing, forestry, rangeland use, and cultivation.
	www.idrc.ca /cfp/ev-30801-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html (1862 words)

	UNHCR - Uganda: Information regarding the government's view of the Baganda being linked to the new opposition.
		According to the editor-in-chief of The Ugandan, a Toronto publication, the Baganda are not associated with any specific opposition group as they are the ones in power.
		According to The New York Times there was pressure in 1986 from the Baganda, Uganda's historically dominant tribe (a quarter of the population), who want to re-establish their own independent monarchist state.
		Several prominent members of the government are members of the Baganda tribe including the Prime-Minister, Dr. Samson Kisekka, the second Deputy Prime-Minister also the leader of the Democratic Party, Dr. Paul Semogerere, the third Deputy Prime-Minister and the Vice-Chairman of the NRM.
	www.unhcr.org /home/RSDCOI/3ae6ab4b34.html (473 words)

	Uganda. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Members of the British Protestant Church Missionary Society arrived in 1877, and they were followed in 1879 by representatives of the French Roman Catholic White Fathers; each of the missions gathered a group of converts, which in the 1880s became fiercely antagonistic toward one another.
		In 1953, Mutesa II was deported for not cooperating with the British; he was allowed to return in 1955, but the rift between Buganda and the rest of Uganda remained.
		The Baganda protested vigorously and seemed on the verge of taking up arms when Obote captured the kabaka‘s palace at Mengo, forced the kabaka to flee the country, and ended effective Baganda resistance.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ug/Uganda.html (2714 words)

	Uganda Power Politics in Buganda - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		Cohen's action had backfired, and he could find no one among the Baganda prepared or able to mobilize support for his schemes.
		Baganda politicians who did not share this vision or who were opposed to the "King's Friends" found themselves branded as the "King's Enemies," which meant political and social ostracism.
		Shocked by the results, the Baganda separatists, who formed a political party called Kabaka Yekka (KY--The King Only), had second thoughts about the wisdom of their election boycott.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/uganda/uganda_history_power_politics_in_buganda.html (1247 words)

	Education Through Music
		The post colonial dualism has produced generations of Baganda that are struggling to participate in modern society, and also to reclaim their identity as Bagandans.
		The social constructs of the Baganda empahsize the well being of the community as well as the individual.
		The basic framework of the Baganda’s political structure was used as the model of government for the entire Uganda Agreement of 1900.
	www.dambe.org /education.html (7827 words)

	New Vision Online : Minister apologises to Baganda
		THE Minister of State for Lands, Matia Baguma Isoke, has apologised to the Baganda for saying they are worse than the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel leader, Joseph Kony.
		He said the Baganda committed worse atrocities on the Banyoro than Kony is doing in northern Uganda.
		Baganda did worse things, like cooking someone in a pot or forcing one to eat grass like an animal.
	www.newvision.co.ug /D/8/12/477136 (508 words)

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		Kabaka is the head of the Ganda nation and Baganda look to him for cultural, political, and spiritual guidance.
		To vist our pages on Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II Click here.
	www.gandaancestry.com /general/index.php (312 words)

	The EastAfrican
		And the Baganda are the largest single tribe in Uganda, making up 16 per cent of the country's population.
		Why the monarchy occupies a central place among the Baganda is largely a product of history.
		Although Baganda historians such as Prof Semakula Kiwanuka agree that Kimera, who founded the kingdom, came from Bunyoro, they distance him from the Luo.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/2801/Regional/Regional11.html (1033 words)

	Drum article
		Given that drums were so closely linked to traditional shrines and the life of a royal court, where human life was held cheap, and that they usually contained fetishes, it seems surprising that the missionaries and converts were willing to countenance their use in Christian contexts.
		It is not clear from the sources whether the new use of drums arose because of Baganda pressure or whether because of deliberate missionary adoption.
		Millar." The Baganda at Home has a fine photograph of "Women drummers at Suna's tomb: the women clapping their hands are keeping time to the drums," with some fairly lurid accounts of the accompanying traditional rites.
	www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk /CDrum.htm (3442 words)

	Baganda: localizacion, historia y costumbres de esta etnia africana
		En 1962, cuando Uganda alcanza su independencia los baganda gozaban del nivel de vida más alto del país y era la etnia con un nivel de alfabetización mas alto.
		Los Baganda se oponen y el palacio del rey es tomado por el ejército y el rey obligado a huir.
		Se producen matanzas de bagandas (40 según el gobierno de Obote, 400 a 1000 según los baganda).
	www.ikuska.com /Africa/Etnologia/Pueblos/Baganda/index.htm (1644 words)

	Uganda - Buganda and the Kingship
		NRM leaders could not be sure that the Baganda would accept their government or the Ten-Point Program.
		On the one hand, until its final year, the guerrilla struggle to remove Obote had been conducted entirely in Buganda, involved a large number of Baganda fighters, and depended heavily on the revulsion most Baganda felt for Obote and the UPC.
		On the other hand, many Baganda who had joined the NRA and received a political education in the Ten-Point Program rejected ethnic loyalty as the basis of political organization.
	countrystudies.us /uganda/62.htm (724 words)

	African Food Habits, Health and Culture
		Among the Baganda, the biggest ethnical group in Uganda during the 1960s, pawpaw (Papaya sp.) and passion fruit were the most common fruits.
		Plantains were a staple food for the Baganda people in Uganda, treated in much the same way as potatoes and with a similar neutral flavour and texture when unripe.
		Not only that the legendary introduction of the plantain to the country was believed to have been made by the tribal ancestor named KINTU, the founder of the Baganda, it also played an important role in every aspect of daily life.
	www.healthyeatingclub.org /Africa/Uganda/Uganda_fruits.htm (439 words)

	Tombs of the Buganda Kings at Kasubi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Its subjects, known as the Baganda, are part of the Bantu people and constitute the largest ethnic group in Uganda.
		However, to the Baganda, the site’s main significance lies in its intangible values of spirituality, continuity and identity.
		Unfortunately, the Baganda have found traditional methods of maintenance too expensive or difficult to apply to all buildings in the compound, so some smaller structures now have corrugated iron roofs.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Heritage/Print/Buganda_Tombs.htm (565 words)

	Federo vs. Federalism
		Sadly, this malaise is to be found predominant in the "elite" Baganda.
		In the meantime the Baganda, cowed into submission, are always taking second place to those whose only credentials are self-confidence, assertiveness and boldness.
		Now the opponents of this system whose selfish reasons of its rejection are obvious, are trying but, with very limited success, to derail the Federalism cause by creating an artificial schism amongst its followers on account of the usage of the word FEDERO.
	www.federo.com /pages/Federo_vs_Federalism.htm (1151 words)

	Banadda
		In 1997, he was awarded an MA in Art (Painting) for his major series of works based on the special theme 'Ugandan Deities - Deities of Baganda and Basoga'.
		Godfrey took the mythology of the Baganda of Uganda as inspiration for a series of major works.
		Ddungu's victim is a symbol of defencelessness against the power that rules the beasts of the wilderness.
	www.theartroom-sf.com /banadda.htm (918 words)

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