Baganda

The Baganda, also Ganda or Waganda, (singular: Muganda ) are an African people. They belong to the Ostbantu and live mainly in the area of the great lakes of East Africa ( Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi ). Of the tribe name of the Ganda, the name of the British Protectorate and later state derives Uganda.

The language of the Baganda is the Luganda. It belongs to the Bantu languages ​​within the language family of the Niger - Congo languages ​​. From the 16th century, the Baganda were the founders of one of the largest empires in Hima - East Africa, the Kingdom of Buganda. After a break of several decades, today there is a Kabaka (king), namely Ronald Mutebi II Muwenda.

Traditionally, the Ganda living from agriculture. They build food ( sweet potatoes, cassava, corn, peanuts, bananas, etc.) for their own use to. For the markets at home and abroad, coffee, tobacco and tea are cultivated.

The Ganda are now mostly Christians.

In Uganda ( census results ) live 1991 3.01598 million ( 18.76 % of Ugandans ) and 2002 4.12637 million ( 17.28 %) members of this Bantu people. South of the Ugandan- Tanzanian border live on the territory of Tanzania, more than 10,000 Ganda.

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