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	BUGANDA
		The Kingdom of Buganda is the largest of the four kingdoms in the western region of Uganda.
		Mutesa II also received a thorough Western education, including a spell at Cambridge and a stint in the Grenadier Guards.
		The restoration of the kingdoms in 1993 saw Mutesa's son and successor, Ronald Mutebi II, proclaimed and crowned as Kabaka.
	www.4dw.net /royalark/Uganda/buganda.htm (926 words)

	Foreign Influence
		Buganda was incorporated into the larger colony of Uganda (technically called a Protectorate), albeit with a large degree of autonomy.
		It was Buganda's heroic age that the explorers stumbled upon in the mid-1800s in their search of the source of the Nile among other adventures and misadventures.
		Buganda doubled in size from ten to twenty counties (masaza), but the "lost counties" of Bunyoro remained a continuing grievance that would return to haunt Buganda in the 1960s.
	www.buganda.com /bazungu.htm (1711 words)

	Uganda - MSN Encarta
		In 1900 all of these issues were formalized in the Buganda Agreement between the British and the chiefs of Buganda, which laid the basis for Buganda’s economic prosperity during British rule.
		The greedy conduct and cultural chauvinism of the chiefs from Buganda caused resentment and a corresponding rise in local ethnic identifications.
		Notably, the Protestant-dominated Buganda local council was given the right to indirectly elect Buganda’s representatives to the national parliament, virtually eliminating any chance of the Catholic DP winning any seats in Buganda.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566572_11/Uganda.html (1873 words)

	Uganda - MSN Encarta
		Buganda, probably formed by a defeated claimant to the Bunyoro throne, steadily expanded over the next four centuries, largely at the expense of Bunyoro.
		In 1862 British explorer John Hanning Speke was welcomed to the court of Kabaka Mutesa I of Buganda.
		The unsettled situation in Buganda was further complicated by competition between Britain and Germany during the Scramble for Africa, in which European nations rushed to claim African territory near the end of the 19th century.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566572_10/Uganda.html (980 words)

	Mutesa I of Buganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During his reign Buganda was visited by Catholic and Anglican Christian missionaries.
		Mutesa resisted Christianity, largely because the missionaries urged him to ban polygamy.
		Mutesa was known for the brutality of his rule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mutesa_I_of_Buganda (127 words)

	Uganda HISTORY
		The missionaries were welcomed by the kabaka (ruler) of Buganda, Mutesa I, who hoped to gain their support or the support of their countrymen against the Egyptian threat from the north.
		Buganda's rebuff of British policies following World War II marked the beginning of a conflict over the place of Buganda within the future evolution of the territory.
		Kabaka Mutesa II was deposed in 1953 when he refused to force his chiefs to cooperate with the British.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa/Uganda-HISTORY.html (2269 words)

	Sacral Kingship in Buganda
		By the beginning of the nineteenth century Buganda was engaged in rapid territorial expansion.
		They may be the symbol of: (a) social solidarity and ambition; (b) a means of dealing with both social and individual crises; (c) a means of dealing with both social and individual crises; (d) in a plural society the focus of private and sectional identity; (e) a means of intellectual understanding.
		In Buganda, insofar as it had become a tribe and not merely a federation of clans, the kabakaship seems to have met the first and second, the balubaale the third, Christianity and Islam the fourth and fifth.
	www.acs.ucalgary.ca /~nurelweb/papers/fred/fred2.html (3411 words)

	PlanetPapers - Was Colonialism Good for Uganda?
		The Buganda and the Bunyoro had long been rivals for supremacy, but found themselves as partners in the effort to resist colonialism.The final blow to the Egyptian scheme was eventually to be delivered by the Mahdist revolt in the Sudan (included in the Egyptian empire since the 1820s), which effectively blocked Egyptian advances into Uganda.
		Mutesa and his courtiers were bewildered by the two sets of white men each claiming to represent a brand of Christianity more valid than the other.
		The main cause of dissension with the Buganda was over land, with the landlords who had benefited from the 1900 Agreement exacting heavy rents, but these concerns were in the main met with the passage of legislation in 1927 to control the rents on such ‘mailo’ land.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/2824.php (3955 words)

	Uganda Martyrs
		The untimely death of Mutesa I in 1884 just a few years after the arrival of the missionaries, left the kingdom in the hands of Mwanga II, a youth whose ruling style fell far short of the charisma and political astuteness his late father had demonstrated in dealing with the foreigners.
		Mutesa had the astuteness and maturity of dealing with conflicting forces that struggled to influence his court.
		Buganda also was experiencing internal strife, the Moslems were plotting to overthrow him and replace him with a Moslem prince.
	www.buganda.com /martyrs.htm (1417 words)

	Uganda: Page-2
		Subsequently, research has shown that Mutesa was arguably the 30th King of Buganda, thus dating the kingdom to the early sixteenth century.
		Mutesa demonstrated this during Speke's second audience; he ordered a court page to shoot someone in the outer court to demonstrate the effect of one of the rifles given to him by Speke.
		However, the fundamental stumbling block for Uganda's government was the anomaly between the alliance of the UPC and the KY. That Obote, a herdsboy from Lango, succeeded in implementing an alliance, and maintaining a friendship with the hereditary king of Buganda, was an outstanding political feat.
	us-africa.tripod.com /uganda2.html (4609 words)

	Uganda. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Buganda was centrally organized under the kabaka (king), who appointed regional administrators and maintained a large bureaucracy and a powerful army.
		Mutesa, fearful of attacks from Egypt, agreed to Stanley’s proposal to allow Christian missionaries (who Mutesa mistakenly thought would provide military assistance) to enter his realm.
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ug/Uganda.html (2714 words)

	Mutesa, II Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Mutesa II (1924-1969), a monarch of Buganda, was the last traditional ruler of the Ganda people in Uganda.
		Edward Frederick William Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa was born on Nov. 19, 1924, the son of the reigning kabaka, or monarch, Sir Daudi Chwa II.
		Mutesa was allowed to return to his country on Oct. 7, 1955, by a compromise agreement which fixed Buganda as a province of Uganda and which made the kabaka ruling Buganda a constitutional monarch with no executive powers.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/mutesa-ii (727 words)

	2. Uganda and the Interlacustrine Region. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Buganda and Bunyoro participated in ivory and slave trades.
		Kabaka Mutesa of Buganda moved toward adoption of Islam, then purged Muslims in 1875 in the face of an Egyptian threat to his kingdom and began to court Christian missionaries.
		Religious and political struggles in Buganda were deeply intertwined.
	www.bartleby.com /67/1535.html (205 words)

	UPC ..::\|::.. Uganda Peoples Congress
		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.
		With this support from Buganda, having been used by the British to run the affairs of the kingdom for half a century, and, viewing the rest of the country as no more than an appendage to Buganda, the neo-traditionalist assumed power was to be passed on to them at independence.
		In colonial Buganda, one's religion determined one's status and advancement in the Buganda civil service; however, in situations where there were two competitors of the same religion, then the social class in a system which came to be known as "mwana wani (whose child)" tipped the balance.
	www.upcparty.net /upcparty/roots_adhola.htm (18989 words)

	Uganda - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The peoples of Bunyoro, Buganda, Busoga and Ankole were connected to the eastern coast and the Swahili slave trade; they consolidated their national unity between the 17th and 18th centuries.
		In the mid-19th century, Buganda maintained a standing army which was enough to guarantee their autonomy from the regional powers: Egypt and Zanzibar.
		Kabaka Mutesa II of Buganda was the first President of the new republic and the Prime Minister was Dr Milton Obote.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/countries/uga/History.stm (2858 words)

	Uganda FAMOUS UGANDANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mukama Kabarega of Bunyoro (r.1896–99) led his people against British and Buganda forces until captured and exiled in 1899; he died in exile in 1923.
		Apollo Milton Obote (b.1924), founder of the UPC and prime minister from 1962 to 1966, overthrew the first president, Sir Edward Frederick Mutesa (Kabaka Mutesa II of Buganda, 1924–69), and was himself president of Uganda from 1966 to 1971 and from 1980 to 1985.
		Idi Amin Dada (b.1925) overthrew Obote in 1971 and led a military government until he was ousted in 1979 by Tanzanian forces and Ugandan rebels.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa/Uganda-FAMOUS-UGANDANS.html (180 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Buganda Agreement of 1900 set the trend for 'indirect rule', whereby the British would rule through the Baganda oligarchy while retaining a facade of traditional government, hence creating a framework of British controlled civil servants.
		That Obote, a herds boy from Lango, succeeded in implementing an alliance, and maintaining a friendship with the hereditary king of Buganda, was an outstanding political feat.
		He did this at the expense of the Buganda Kingdom, expelling the Kabaka and abolishing the kingdom in the bloody massacre at the battle of Mengo in 1966.
	www.cwm-uganda.org /uganda/history.htm (3874 words)

	THE BUGANDA AGREEMENT, 1955
		But Her Majesty’s Government can and does say that, unless there is a substantial change in public opinion in the Protectorate, including that of the Baganda, the inclusion of the Protectorate in an East African federation will remain outside the realm of practical politics even in the more distant future”.
		of Buganda, that is to say, the descendants of Kabaka Mutesa I, and the name of the prince chosen by the Lukiko must be submitted to Her Majesty’s Government for approval, and no prince shall be recognised as Kabaka of Buganda whose election has not received the approval of Her Majesty’s Government.
		Government as Kabaka of Buganda he shall enter into a Solemn Undertaking in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution set out the First Schedule to this Agreement; and so long as he observes the terms of the said Solemn Undertaking, Her Majesty’s Government agrees to recognise him as Ruler of Buganda.
	www.kituochakatiba.co.ug /buganda_agreement_1955.htm (998 words)

	Busoga Kingdom >> The Institution of Obwa Kyabazinga >> Amasaza
		Mutesa's cultural beliefs were worsened by the fears that the Europeans’ arrival through Busoga would not only see his overthrow from the throne, but also probably would arm sections of Busoga against Buganda Kingdom.
		On orders of Kabaka Mutesa, Bishop Hannington was killed in October 1885, at a place called Kyando in Bukaleba in present day Bunya county in Mayuge district.
		Due to the already existence of a well organised administration structure in Buganda Kingdom, the early missionaries that came to Uganda preferred keeping a distance away from Buganda until a firm colonisation machinery was in place.
	www.busoga.com /explorers.php (653 words)

	United Movement To End Child Soldiering
		Stanley persuaded Kabaka Mutesa to invite Christian missionaries to Buganda, and to be open to a larger British presence.
		Mutesa wrote a letter of invitation, which Stanley had published in the British press.
		Kabaka Mutesa himself observed Islamic traditions and learned to read the Koran although he never converted to Islam and felt threatened by the younger members of his court who did.
	www.endchildsoldiering.org /0206.htm (666 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)

	New Vision Online : Buganda did not cause 1966 crisis
		Against the strained relationship between the president and prime minister, UPC itself was going through serious problems of intrigue and power struggles which exploded at the party’s annual general meeting in Gulu in 1965 where Grace Ibingira replaced John Kakonge as the party’s Secretary General.
		Mutesa reacted to these events by appealing to Britain to intervene and help restore constitutionalism and the rule of law.
		When Mutesa appealed to Britain for assistance there was no constitution and therefore he could not have been treasonous.
	www.newvision.co.ug /D/8/459/463482 (794 words)

	The EastAfrican
		When the King of Bunyoro was finally defeated, some parts of his kingdom were given to Buganda as a reward for its collaboration and as a punishment to Bunyoro for its resistance.
		The six counties lost to Buganda in 1886 as a result were Buyaga, Bugangaizi, Buruli, Buwekula, Bugerere and some parts of Singo.
		Buganda was at loggerheads with Uganda, leading to the 1966 crisis.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/180299/Regional/Regional11.html (681 words)

	The EastAfrican on the Web
		In 1966, the Kabaka of Buganda, Freddie Mutesa, was titular president when his kingdom quarrelled with the central government led by Prime Minister Milton Obote.
		Mutesa ordered Obote and the central government to ship out of Kampala, which was in Buganda.
		The Buganda federalists say President Yoweri Museveni, who based his armed rebellion in their region, promised to restore the kingdoms but cheated them when he came to power.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/10022003/Opinion/Opinion6.html (640 words)

	Buganda's Proposals on Constitutional Reform in Uganda
		In the case of Buganda, this was under the 1900 Buganda Agreement.
		For example, under the 1900 Buganda Agreement, the Kingdom of Buganda remained a Kingdom as a whole, and was administered through the Kabaka (King), the Katikkiro (Prime Minister), the Abakungu (Ministers), the Lukiiko (Parliament), and the local government administrative structure from the Masaza to Batongole.
		It was only after Buganda refused to have any other Kabaka but Mutesa II, that Obote decided in May 1967 (over a year later), to abolish the federal system and to rule the whole country from the centre.
	www.buganda.com /federo.htm (9500 words)

	Buganda (Uganda) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Buganda is the largest traditional kingdom within Uganda (the others are Toro, Ankole and Bunyoro, which make up part of the Western Region).
		During the colonial period, the British allowed the Kabaka (king) of Buganda and the rulers of the other states a large degree of power and influence, and this was retained a little while into independence.
		The kingdoms were abolished by Milton Obote in the 1960's but have recently been revived by President Yuseveni's government as a way of bringing government closer to the traditional feelings of the people.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ug-bugan.html (258 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus - Self-Determination - Regional Conflict Profile - Uganda
		In the decades before the advent of European exploration, the relatively centralized kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro dominated a large part of the territory that is now southern and western Uganda.
		Obote became the ruling prime minister, and Kabaka Mutesa II of Buganda became ceremonial president.
		This move led to a showdown with Buganda authorities in the Battle of Mengo, in which the power of Buganda was crushed, and the Kabaka forced into exile.
	selfdetermine.irc-online.org /conflicts/uganda_body.html (2040 words)

	The Monitor Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Buganda has never acknowledged the fact that the central government did not, on an angry whim, send in the army to flush out the rebellious snipers from the Lubiri, but rather first sent in the civilian police.
		It is not clear, for example why, if Obote single-handedly destroyed the once proud Buganda kingdom with this deployment of the army at the Lubiri palace, the fortunes of Buganda have never recovered in the four decades since.
		OBOTE AND MUTESA: Buganda is partly responsible for the crisis of May 1966.
	www.monitor.co.ug /specialincludes/ugprsd/obote/ob/ob10245.php (1408 words)

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