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Bunyoro

a district in Uganda; a former state in the interlake region of East Africa, on the eastern shore of what is now Lake Mobutu Sese Seko. The Bunyoro state arose in the 13th or 14th century and was initially known as Kitara. A feudal state with elements of patriarchal slavery, Bunyoro was one of the most powerful states in the interlake region in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Under the Anglo-German Agreement of 1890, Bunyoro was included in Great Britain’s sphere of influence, and the people of Bunyoro carried on a struggle against the foreign aggressors for many years. In the 1890’s, Bunyoro was incorporated into the British protectorate of Uganda with the status of an autonomous province; this status was formalized in 1933. The province remained part of Uganda after the declaration of Ugandan independence on Oct. 9, 1962.

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Nduliya says the Omukama (king) of Bunyoro Kitara, called Kabaiega, loved hunting and every year he went on a hunting expedition to the Ituri forests with an entourage of hundreds or perhaps thousands of his men, together with herds of livestock, since they were pastoralists.

Ancient roots of modern conflict

Ethnic groups: Baganda, Banyankole, Bahima, Bakiga, Banyarwanda, Bunyoro, Batoro, Langi, Acholi, Lugbara, Karamojong, Basoga, Bagisu, and others.

Uganda

The largest park in Uganda, it straddles the Albertine Rift Valley the Bunyoro escarpment and the rolling plains of Acholiland.

25 UNUSUAL NATIONAL PARKS ACROSS THE WORLD

Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro: Population & Environment in Western Uganda, 1860-1955.

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THE SOURCE: "The Child of Death': Personal Names and Parental Attitudes Towards Mortality in Bunyoro, Western Uganda, 1900-2005" by Shane Doyle, in Journal a/African History, Nov.

History by name

As Shane Doyle notes in his chapter, it was the rationalization the British used for destroying the Bunyoro kingdom in 1890, even though the African soldiers deployed against the Bunyoro--the Baganda and the Sudanese were themselves active in the slave trade.

Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa

Both make authoritative contributions with the primary focuses of the books: demographic changes in the Bunyoro kingdom in the first and the "crisis" over marriage in Gusiiland in the second.

Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro: Population & Environment in Western Uganda 1860-1955

Particular geographic topics include slavery and social change in Unyamwezi; slavery and forced labor in the Eastern Congo; legacies of slavery in Northwest Uganda; human booty, stolen people, and autonomous chief in Buganda; slavery and social oppression in Ankole; the slave trade in Burundi and Rwanda; and Bunyoro and the demography of slavery.

Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa

For the CMS, the rapid conversion of the Ganda and their willingness to share Christianity with the Bunyoro, Toro, Ankole, and others was considered one of the greatest successes of the era.

Saint Apolo from Europe, or "What's in a Luganda name?" (1)

sagonai fractolineata Uganda: Budongo forest, Mpanga forest, Jago, 1981 Mabira forest, Bugoma forest, Mubende, Bunyoro U.

A new Usambilla species (Acridoidea, Lentulidae) from the northwestern highlands of Tanzania and distribution data on the genus Usambilla

By contrast, John Beatty could hardly go three sentences in a lecture without bringing in an example of something from Bunyoro. Even after I began to study the Batek--who, like the Penan, were hunter-gatherers--Rodney seldom brought out points of similarity or difference between the two peoples for discussion.

Rodney Needham: 1923-2006