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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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Serwano Kulubya, a Muganda gentleman educated at Budo, exemplified for many activists how British sociability offered dangerous power to the wrong people. Because Andreas was not a Muganda by birth, but an acculturated Munyoro (the Banyoro are a neighboring people), Todd shows musical instruments instead of a clan symbol. Regardless of a legendary claim that a Muganda hunter named Wamala from the Ngonge (otter) clan discovered the efficacy of this material during one of his hunting trips (Lugira 1965:56), the fact that this material has assumed a crucial role as a marker of tradition in several groups across the south is sufficient proof of its crosscultural connotations, and hence of the dynamism of cultural exchange in the region. |
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