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  buganda - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Buganda is the kingdom of the Baganda people, the largest of the four traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda.
Buganda covers the land immediately to the north of Lake Victoria, extending slightly to the south west.
Buganda was given a great deal of control over the other kingdoms in the protectorate: Toro, Nkore, and Bunyoro.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/buganda   (198 words)

  
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These are the conditions of Buganda, a country with an annual rainfall of from 6o to 8o in., a regular West African climate, and severe and frequent thunderstorms.
Seeing that the situation in Buganda was impossible unless they had a strong central force, which the company could not provide, Lugard and Williams had formed the idea of enlisting the Sudanese who had been left by Emin and Stanley at the south end of the Albert Lake.
By the treaty of Mengo, signed in March 1900, the young king of Buganda, Daudi Chwa, a son of Mwanga, born in 1896, was accorded the title of his Highness the Kabaka.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=67301   (7211 words)

  
 Kabaka of Buganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Upon the birth of a royal prince or princess, the Royal Drums are sound by specially nominated drummers (by birth) from a specified clan, as a means of informing the subjects of the Kingdom, of the birth of new member of the royal family.
This is to ensure that each of the 52 clans of Baganda gets a chance of producing a future king of Buganda, since a reigning king can marry from any of the 52 clans except that of his biological mother.
Muwenda Mutebi II, 1993-present (on 4th April 1971, Prince Ronald Mutebi II succeeded the Royal Throne of Buganda Kingdom after the burial of his late father Sir Edward Muteesa II in the Royal Tombs of Kasubi and attained the Kingdom's official title - Ssabataka.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kabaka_of_Buganda   (699 words)

  
 Ugandan History | MissionUganda.com
From about 1700, Buganda began to expand (largely at the expense of Bunyoro), and by 1800 it controlled a large territory bordering Lake Victoria from the Victoria Nile to the Kagera River.
Buganda was centrally organized under the kabaka (king), who appointed regional administrators and maintained a large bureaucracy and a powerful army.
In 1900 an agreement was signed with Buganda that gave the kingdom considerable autonomy and also transformed it into a constitutional monarchy controlled largely by Protestant chiefs.
missionuganda.com /encyclopedia/history   (2016 words)

  
 Uganda - HISTORY
Buganda's armies and the royal tax collectors traveled swiftly to all parts of the kingdom along specially constructed roads which crossed streams and swamps by bridges and viaducts.
The vote demonstrated an overwhelming desire by residents in the counties annexed to Buganda in 1900 to be restored to their historic Bunyoro allegiance, which was duly enacted by the new UPC majority despite KY opposition.
Buganda was divided into four districts and ruled through martial law, a forerunner of the military domination over the civilian population that all of Uganda would experience after 1971.
www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/uganda/HISTORY.html   (13080 words)

  
 Buganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Buganda Heritage Association set up an appeal fund to which all Baganda in the UK can contribute for the restoration and preservation of the royal and cultural sites, which are part of the Buganda history and identity.
Buganda is a kingdom located on Lake Victoria; it is believed to have been established in the 16th century...
Buganda* Buganda, former kingdom on the western shore of Lake Victoria, in...
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 MAR | Data | Chronology for Acholi in Uganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Uganda Agreement was drawn up giving the Buganda more internal autonomy than was granted to the rest of the country which led to much dissension during the rest of British rule.
Buganda Land Law was passed providing a sound legal basis for freehold tenure in Buganda.
A press release signed by APG's vice chairman, Okello-Okello (MP Chwa) said the MPs expressed "great concern at the manner in which 20 members of the extended family of Justin Kidega from Pamin-Luwek village, Angaya parish, Paicho division, Aswa county in Gulu were dubiously transported to Kampala and are now being paraded as fugitives".
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=50001   (5565 words)

  
 A Monarchy of “Seven Lives”
A Sign of a Nation Reborn at the Heart of Africa?
The Buganda Kingdom, believed to be several centuries old, stretches from the upper shores of Lake Victoria to the central districts of Uganda, setting its residence on a landscape adorned by the natural beauty of lush, green, wild vegetation and gentle rolling hills.
"Buganda derives its name from the house of kings at Naggalabi — Buddo, where the first kabaka (king), said to be Bemba, lived until he was overthrown by an invading army led by Kintu," Ezau latched into his favorite subject.
Buganda is reputed to be the most populous monarchy in Uganda, 17% of the national population are Baganda.
www.ugpulse.com /articles/daily/homepage.asp?ID=43   (1155 words)

  
 Buganda: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Buganda is the kingdom of the 52 clans of the Baganda Buganda is the kingdom of the 52 clans of the baganda people, the largest of the four traditional kingdoms in present-day uganda....
Buganda was given a great deal of control over the other kingdoms in the protectorate: Toro Toro can be:...
However, the monarchy and much of Buganda's autonomy was revoked, along with that of the other 4 Ugandan kingdoms, in 1967, after Prime Minister Dr. Apollo Milton Obote abrogated the 1966 constitution and turned the state into a Republic.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /k/buganda   (1057 words)

  
 jbburnett.com | uganda history
By the end of the nineteenth century, Buganda dominated the region, but the rivalry between Buganda and Bunyoro remained strong enough to be exploited by colonial agents who established the Uganda Protectorate in 1894.
Buganda prospered and drew farm workers from other areas of the protectorate.
Buganda's schools also developed ahead of those in other regions, helping fuel existing rivalries between the Baganda and their neighbors.
jbburnett.com /africa/ug/ughist.htm   (15820 words)

  
 Places to see, things to do
Historically, Buganda Kabaka's have always built their palaces on startegic hills inorder to find easy ways to escape during an invasion and to control the major roads to the palace.
Mutesa 1 was the 35th King of Buganda (1856-1884) and the first king to be buried in his former palace (the Tombs) at Kasubi without removing his jawbone.
Daudi Chwa II was succeeded by his son Edward Mutesa II and the then governor of the Uganda protectorate.
www.globalimmigrant.org /gpage19.html   (1383 words)

  
 nkima   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The restoration of the Kingdom of Buganda, in our contemporary time, was accentuated by the encyclical letter addressed by His Majesty Ssaabataka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi to the people of Buganda on March 6, 1991.
Thus the Monkey Clan is part of the solidality of clans which forms a nation and/or kingdom of Buganda at the head of which is the Ssaabataka/Kabaka of Buganda that is the Archhead of Clans/ King of Buganda.
By the experience of the very history of Buganda that is not true as it will appear when later we show the wives of the Kabakas who came from even the household of Mugema.
www.buganda.com /nkima.htm   (3654 words)

  
 Dr.ADOKO - Uganda Facts and History
By the 1860s, Buganda was the destination of ever more caravans, and the kabaka and his chiefs began to dress in cloth called mericani, which was woven in Massachusetts and carried to Zanzibar by American traders.
The victorious Protestant and Catholic converts then divided the Buganda kingdom, which they ruled through a figurehead kabaka dependent on their guns and goodwill.
Buganda doubled in size from ten to twenty counties (sazas), but the "lost counties" of Bunyoro remained a continuing grievance that would return to haunt Buganda in the 1960s.
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 New Vision Online : Discussion Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
During the reign of the boy king Daudi Chwa in Buganda, three regents were appointed to run the affairs of the kingdom on his behalf.
Article 15 of the 1900 Buganda agreement divided Buganda as follows; 1,500 square miles as forests to be brought under the control of the Uganda administration, 9,000 square miles as waste and uncultivated land vested in Her Majesty’s government to be controlled by the central government.
Buganda managed to retain it during the referendum that dealt with the lost counties of Buyaga and Bugangayizi.
www.newvision.co.ug /B/D/339/1/3781   (2941 words)

  
 Uganda Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
From about 1700, Buganda began to expand and by 1800 it controlled a large territory bordering Lake Victoria from the Victoria Nile to the Kagera River.
In 1862, the first European to visit Buganda, John Hanning Speke, a British explorer interested in establishing the source of the Nile, met with Mutesa I, as did Henry M. Stanley, who reached Buganda in 1875.
In 1901 a railroad from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean reached Kisumu, on Lake Victoria, which in turn was connected by boat with Uganda; in 1923 the railraod was extended to Jinja, and in 1931 to Kampala.
www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Uganda.html   (2099 words)

  
 The Reign of Kabaka Suuna: 1810–1852   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
At one time he sent soldiers to plunder her property after suspecting that she was pregnant, later he returned her property after establishing that she wasn't with child.
The first king of Buganda, Kintu, had only one wife Nambi Nantutululu, daughter of Bakazirwendo of the Ngeye clan.
His successor Chwa I had two Nakku daughter of Walusimbi of Fumbe and Nakiwala daughter of Semwanga of Ngonge.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/36/493.html   (360 words)

  
 Historical Profile of the Diocese of Namirembe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It had been prophesied by Buganda's traditional forthtellers that the enemies of Buganda were planning to use the eastern entrance on their way to attack Buganda.
The King therefore ruled that whoever used the eastern entrance had to be labelled as an enemy of Buganda hence deserved to be killed.
He witnessed the desecration of Buganda Kingdom, when in 1966, the then Prime Minister of Uganda, Apolo Milton Obote forced Kabaka Muteesa II out of his palace, into exile in the United Kingdom.
www.geocities.com /namirembediocese/Diocese.html   (1421 words)

  
 BUGANDA
Although stated to be the founder of the ruling dynasty, it now appears that his male line descendants died out or were driven from their patrimony during the second half of the fourteenth century.
The true founder of the dynasty is Kimera, claimed to be a grandson of Kabaka Chwa I, through his son and heir, Prince Kalemera through an illicit liaison with the Lady Wannyana, wife of Omukama Winyi I of Bunyoro-Kitara.
Daudi Chwa II reigned for forty-two eventually years, which saw huge political, social and commercial changes to his kingdom.
www.4dw.net /royalark/Uganda/buganda.htm   (896 words)

  
 Daily Nation On the Web
The 44-year-old Kabaka of the Buganda Kingdom, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, has at last been engaged to the future Queen of the Baganda, the Nabagereka.
The most urgent wish among the Baganda clan leaders, officials at Mengo (seat of the Buganda Kingdom's government), religious and civic leaders was that Kabaka Mutebi finds a suitable woman to marry.
Many people see this excessive secrecy about the future Buganda Queen as a ploy to intensify curiosity so that when the marriage takes place everyone will be interested to see it happen.
www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/280399/Features/SE32.html   (1157 words)

  
 john   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Whereas on ____________1994, the ancient Kingdom of Buganda was restored by accession of Kabaka Mutebi Muwenda to the Namulondo
A record of the line of succession shall be kept in the Record Commissioner’s office and shall be displayed in the Upper House of the Lukiiko and updated both in event of birth or death for all those who fall under subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this article.
From the date of the assent of this constitution it shall be a requirement that all new entries on the record of the line of succession shall be notified before the fifth birthday of the new entrant.
www.federo.com /pages/buganda_draft_constitution.htm   (3738 words)

  
 Travel in Kampala, Uganda - History
The origins of the Kampala city go back to 1891 the when Kabaka of Buganda had his court on Rubaga and Mengo hills.
He managed to send a predatory force of 160 men to set up a garrison in Mengo, Mutesa's capital of Buganda, they were captured and only narrowly rescued from the Baganda only when he gave up and returned to Egypt rather dispirited.
Today, as you stand on the hills, the City' provides magnificent evergreen trees, gently disrupted by red-tiled villas, green iron~roofed bungalows, as well as taller modern city profiles that give way to attractive views of the surrounding country side and nearby Lake Victoria.
www.africatravelling.net /uganda/kampala/kampala_history.htm   (1010 words)

  
 Global Road Warrior   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Buganda tribe were the most numerous (20 percent) in the region and their name was reworked to designate the entire section on the north shore of Lake Victoria.
Unfortunately, the British recruited native bureaucrats almost exclusively from the Buganda tribe, much to the dismay of the other local peoples.
The Buganda tribe claimed special autonomy within the new nation and Muteesa II became president.
www.worldtradepress.com /grwUnigroup/country/uganda/13grw.html   (2539 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of Uganda, 1890-1918
The Mwanga, in 1897, accused of plotting, was deported to the Seychelles, and succeeded by his infant son Daudi Chwa.
After an insurrection, the kings of Buganda and Unyoro were deported to the Seychelles (1897).
The Buganda kingdom had preserved a considerable degree of political autonomy; the British administration attempted to focus settlement on the Toro Province instead.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/eastafrica/uganda18901918.html   (893 words)

  
 Uganda on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Around 1500, Nilotic-speaking Luo people from present-day SE Sudan settled the Cwezi states and established the Bito dynasties of Buganda (in some Bantu languages, the prefix Bu means state; thus, Buganda means "state of the Baganda people"), Bunyoro, and Ankole.
In 1961 there were three main political parties in Uganda—the Uganda People's Congress (UPC), whose members were mostly non-Baganda; the Democratic party, made up chiefly of Roman Catholic Baganda; and the Kabaka Yekka [Kabaka only] party, comprising only Baganda.
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.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Uganda_History.asp   (3160 words)

  
 The Royal Forums - Royalty of Buganda
Buganda is the kingdom of the Bangada people, the largest of the four traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda.
July 31, 1999: The enthronement ceremony of Ssabasajja Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II was held when he was crowned 36th King of Buganda.
A good friend of mine is from Buganda and was going to bring me to a reception in Their Majesties' honor.
www.theroyalforums.com /forums/f70/royalty-buganda-5286-print.html   (624 words)

  
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When introduced in the court of Kabaka Suuna in the 1850s and later during the reigns of Muteesa I and Chwa Kabalega, in Buganda and Bunyoro-Kitara respectively, Kiswahili was a welcome cultural experience and a medium of communication with the outside world, but on the terms of our people.
A change of heart, seems to have emerged when the colonialists, in their usual disrupting and imposing manner, suggested that Kiswahili becomes the de-facto national language.
The spirit of this resistance is well captured in a 1921 Essay, on this subject, written by Sir Daudi Chwa, contained in D.A Low's classical text, "The Mind of Buganda".
www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art5397.txt   (1048 words)

  
 Mwanga Biography / Biography of Mwanga Biography
When the great kabaka, or monarch, of Buganda, Mutesa I, died in 1884, his state was a major force in the Lake Victoria region.
Internal political life in Buganda was troubled by conflict between factions grouped around Protestant, Roman Catholic, Moslem, and African traditional leaders.
Meantime Britain had been given control over Buganda in 1890; the first officers arrived at the end of the year to administer the country by means of a private chartered company.
www.bookrags.com /biography-mwanga   (480 words)

  
 Off the Beaten Path - Uganda Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
The house is said to be 101 year old and was built in 1896 by 2 Europeans; for Zakaria Kizito Kisingiri, one of the three Regents to the then young King Daudi Chwa the second of 36 kings of Buganda.
The big round shaped hut is where 4 of the 37 kings of Buganda were buried.
This is attributed to the fact that the Baganda had a centralised system of government which by 1750 was the most well organised in the interlacustrine region.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Africa/Uganda/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Uganda-R-3.html   (895 words)

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