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Buganda, kingdom, E Africa: see Uganda Uganda (ygän`də,
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Buganda

Precolonial kingdom, East Africa. Located along the northern shore of Lake Victoria in present-day Uganda, the kingdom was founded in the late 14th century by the Ganda people. Ruled by the kabaka, or king, by the 19th century Buganda was the most powerful kingdom in the area. In 1900 it became a British protectorate. The Ganda subsequently played a major role in assisting British administration in East Africa. When Uganda became independent in 1962, Buganda was accorded special federal status within the new country. Ensuing tensions with the central government led in 1967 to the kingdom's abolition and the area's integration into Uganda. Buganda was restored in 1993.

Buganda
a region of Uganda: a powerful Bantu kingdom from the 17th century


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1) Mulumba's response to a dinner invitation with a critique of the colonial order--as a closely interlocked system of cooperation among officials and missions, the Kingdom of Buganda and protectorate officials--was rude, deliberately rude, an attack on the forms of manners and politeness that had shaped both British and Ganda deployments of power and influence in Buganda since at least the beginning of the Uganda Protectorate in 1900.
Radical rudeness: Ugandan social critiques in the 1940s by Summers, Carol / Journal of Social History
When young Mwanga succeeded Mutesa I on the throne of Buganda in 1884, both Protestants and Catholics were preaching at the Kabaka's court.
Modernism and cultural politics in East Africa: Cecil Todd's drawings ... by Sanyal, Sunanda K. / African Arts
The diocese of Rupert's Land recently hosted a delegation of 11 people from the diocese of Central Buganda in Uganda, including Bishop Jackson Matovu.
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