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Baganda (bägän`də), also called Ganda, the largest ethnic group in Uganda. Bagandas comprise about 17% 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 Speke, John Hanning (spēk), 1827–64, English explorer in Africa. ..... Click the link for more information. and James Grant, dealt with Mutesa, the powerful Bagandan kabaka of the Victorian era. Ugandan president Milton Obote Obote, Apollo Milton (ōbō`tā), 1924–2005, president of Uganda (1966–71, 1980–85). ..... Click the link for more information. 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. Gandaor BagandaPeople of southern Uganda. They speak Luganda, a Bantu language of the Benue-Congo group. Numbering 3.7 million, the Ganda are Uganda's largest ethnic group. Traditionally hoe cultivators, they also grow cotton and coffee for export and keep livestock. In the 19th century the Ganda developed the centralized state known as Buganda. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Dinners and friendly associations among missionaries and protectorate officials, and between Baganda and Britons, had allowed the British to plot among themselves, seize Ugandans' resources, seduce Buganda's leaders and block Ganda efforts toward individual and corporate progress. The figure remained at the royal compound until Rukonge fled from German troops, which advanced after his attack on Baganda Catholic catechists. Ssengendo's own interest in the subject stems from living through two decades--from the late 1960s through the late 1980s--of social turmoil, marked by violent persecutions of the Baganda under the regimes of Apolo Milton Obote (independent Uganda's first prime minister), and that of Idi Amin Dada, both northerners. |
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