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| | Sacral Kingship in Buganda |
 | | He was called Kabaka; members of the senior line of a segment were balangira, a term otherwise applied to male descendents of a kabaka (Fallers, 1964, 71). |
 | | Empirically, while the kabakas originally ruled as primus inter pares, the hereditary clan heads were gradually replaced, as district administrators, by men arbitrarily appointed by the kabala and subject to equally arbitrary dismissal. |
 | | It is legitimate to attribute both the special washing and drying of the kabaka's corpse, and the human sacrifice, not to any special supernatural status of the kabaka but simply to the need to give, to both his corpse and his ghost, treatment appropriate to the honour with which he was held in life. |
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