BAGANDA

bägänˈdə, also called Ganda, the largest ethnic group in Uganda. Bagandas comprise about 30% of the population and have the country's highest standard of living and literacy rate. Their traditional homeland is Buganda, an area of central and southern Uganda. Their first king or kabaka, the powerful Kintu, was crowned c.1380. The earliest European explorers to visit Buganda, John Speke and James Grant, dealt with Mutesa, the powerful Bagandan kabaka of the Victorian era. Ugandan president Milton Obote outlawed the Bagandan and other traditional Ugandan kingships in 1966 and the then-king, Sir Edward Frederick Mutesa II, went into exile in England. In 1993 kingship was restored by President Yoweri Museveni and "King Freddy's" son, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, was installed as kabaka.

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Buganda and British Overrule, 1900-1955: Two Studies
Book by D. Anthony Low, R. Cranford Pratt; Oxford University Press, 1960
Subjects: Buganda--Politics And Government
...refuse to provide all the guns which the Baganda desired. But a close association between...followed in 1879. It was not for the Baganda to make the divorce. For them as for...indeed some young, ambitious, and inquiring Baganda were seeking association with the missionaries...
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The Making of Modern Uganda
Book by Kenneth Ingham; Allen & Unwin, 1958
Subjects: Uganda--History--1890-1962, Uganda--History--To 1890
...Bunyoro had extended far afield while the Baganda were still an insignificant tribe on...important part in the social life of the Baganda even after the growth of a ruling dynasty...anthropologist, John Roscoe, claimed that the Baganda had always been a religious nation, most...
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Kakungulu & the Creation of Uganda, 1868-1928
Book by Michael Twaddle; James Currey, 1993
Subjects: Ganda (African People)--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Kakungulu, Semei--1868-1928, Uganda--History--1890-1962
...son of Semuwemba was doubted by some Baganda subsequently, 18 but during the nineteenth...royal power was managerial power. Elderly Baganda have sometimes exaggerated the sheer...it was tolerated by more than a million Baganda, 40 because their king was the source...
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Uganda: A Crisis of Nationhood
Book by Harold Ingrams; Her Majestys Stationery Office, 1960
Subjects: Nationalism--Uganda, Uganda
...people varying from the sophisticated Baganda Ganda people , with their old civilization...another problem and 7,000 Europeans. The Baganda belong to the Bantu race. In the Eastern...individuality, and most of them fear the Baganda, who are in many ways the most advanced...
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Uganda Now: Between Decay & Development
Book by Holger Bernt Hansen, Michael Twaddle; James Currey, 1988
Subjects: Uganda--Economic Conditions--1979-, Uganda--History--1979-
...within the Bantu family: for example, the Baganda living in the Kampala- Entebbe area spoke...had the large kingdom of Buganda. But Baganda failed to become Ugandas Prussians...numerically preponderant Bantu southerners, with Baganda included at the coalitions political...
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journal articles on: Baganda  - 30 results

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Baakisimba: Constructing Gender of the Baganda (of Uganda) through Music and Dance
Journal article by Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza; Women & Music, 2001
Subjects: Dancing--Uganda, Interpersonal relations--Uganda, Music and society--Uganda, Sex differences--Uganda, Uganda--Social aspects
Baakisimba: constructing gender of the Baganda (of Uganda) through music and dance...baakisimba and gender constructions among the Baganda people of Uganda. (1) On the one hand...construction of gender relations among the Baganda. On the other hand, Baganda gender construction...
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Radical Rudeness: Ugandan Social Critiques in the 1940s
Journal article by Carol Summers; Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Radicals (Persons)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Radicals (Persons)--Political activity, Radicals--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Radicals--Political activity, Uganda--History, Uganda--Political aspects, Uganda--Social aspects
...and protectorate officials, and between Baganda and Britons, had allowed the British to...Protectorate in 1900. Mulumba, and other Baganda rebels of the late 1940s were disorderly...appreciate creativity. During the 1940s, Baganda, especially younger men not fully incorporated...
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Democracy for Uganda: A Case for Comparison
Journal article by David E. Apter; Daedalus, Vol. 124, 1995
Subjects: Amin, Idi--Political activity, Buganda--History, Indigenous peoples--East Africa, Kings and rulers--Uganda, Museveni, Yoweri--Political activity, Obote, Milton--Political activity, Uganda--Politics and government
...Independence, much to the disgust of the Baganda, and it was Idi Amin Dada who became familiar...affinities. It was in deference to the Baganda that, within the framework of the first...arrangement was doomed from the start. The Baganda were not willing to settle for less than...
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A Religion of the Rupee: Materialist Encounters in North-West Tanzania
Journal article by Brad Weiss; Africa, Vol. 72, 2002
Subjects: Coffee industry--Social aspects
...world of Indians, `Wangwana, Baswahili, Baganda, foreigners of all sorts who occupy...cosmopolitan world, especially among the Baganda, the Christian religion also has its adherents...converts in commerce, the bad example set by Baganda `adherents to the faith who become `delinquent...
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Markets, Democracy, and Ethnicity: Toward a New Paradigm for Law and Development
Journal article by Amy L. Chua; Yale Law Journal, 1998
Subjects: Democracy--International aspects, Ethnic relations--Economic aspects, International economic relations--Social aspects
...of the north repeatedly subjected the economically dominant Baganda of the south to bloody purges.(200) Dozens of other examples...developmental socialism" largely to "cut the economically dominant Baganda down to size."(267) Around the same time, Kenya passed a number...
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magazine articles on: Baganda  - 12 results

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Museveni Is 'Good for Business': Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni Will Continue to Lead the Nation for Another Five Years Following His Victory over Rival Kizza Besigye in February. What Will His Tenure Mean for the Country's Business Community? African Business' Man in Kampla, Stuart Price Spoke to a Variety of Businesspeople to Gauge Their Expectations for the Next Five Years
Magazine article by Stuart Price; African Business, April 2006
Subjects: Besigye, Kizza--Evaluation, Besigye, Kizza--Political activity, Museveni, Yoweri--Evaluation, Museveni, Yoweri--Political activity, Presidential candidates--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Presidential candidates--Evaluation, Presidential candidates--Political activity, Presidential elections--Forecasts and trends, Presidents--Elections, Presidents--Forecasts and trends, Uganda--Political aspects
...Kampala. Kampala is located in the Kingdom of Buganda and the Baganda is the largest ethnic group in the country. Although there were presidential candidates from this area, many Baganda chose to vote on political issues rather than ethnic or tribal...
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An Unworkable Theology
Magazine article by Philip Turner; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2005
...in my case God provided an intervening event. I lived for about ten years among the Baganda, a people who dwell on the north shore of Lake Victoria. The Baganda have a proverb which, roughly translated, says, "A person who never travels always...
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An African Success Story?
Magazine article by Bill Berkeley; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 274, September 1994
Subjects: Museveni, Yoweri--Interviews, Okello Lutwa, Tito--Interviews, Uganda--Political aspects
...according to the time-honored method of divide and rule. 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. Over the...
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Kampala, the Host City
Magazine article; New African, November 2007
Subjects: Hillside architecture, Hotels and motels--Uganda, Kampala, Uganda (City)--Buildings and facilities, Kampala, Uganda (City)--Description and travel
...back to the mid-19th century and the coming of the Europeans. At the time, the indigenous inhabitants of the region were the Baganda residing in what still is the Buganda Kingdom. The reigning Buganda Kabaka (king) of the time, Mutesa I, had chosen this area...
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The Cost of Dying Is Killing
Magazine article by Tom Nevin; African Business, March 2001
Subjects: Funeral industry--Prices and rates, Funerals--Prices and rates, SA Memorial Parks--Finance, South Africa
...the backing of the Democratic Party who are not fielding a candidate. The parry enjoys a powerful political base within, the Baganda community. Although a veteran of Musevenis bush war against the Obote regime, for the last two years Bisgye has been a vocal...
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encyclopedia articles on: Baganda  - 3 results

 
 
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Baganda
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BAGANDA bagan d , also called Ganda, the largest ethnic group in Uganda. Bagandas comprise about 17% of the population and have the countrys...Speke and James Grant, dealt with Mutesa, the powerful Bagandan kabaka of the Victorian era. Ugandan president Milton...
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Uganda
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...southern half of the country, are the Baganda (who make up about 17% of the countrys...state; thus, Buganda means "state of the Baganda people"), Bunyoro, and Ankole. Later in...large bureaucracy and a powerful army. The Baganda raided widely for cattle, ivory, and slaves...
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Moon Worship
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...laid out at night to absorb the rays of the moon, which were thought to have power to cure disease and prolong life. 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. The moon was...


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