Buganda

Buganda is a kingdom in present-day Uganda in Africa. The Kingdom is supported by the 52 clans of the Baganda.

Baganda ( singular: Muganda ) are the inhabitants of Buganda, their language is Luganda. The current name of the country Uganda is the Swahili term for Buganda and was taken over in 1894 by the British officials of the Protectorate. The kings of Buganda Kabaka call themselves. When speaking of the deceased kings, as they say Ssekabakka.

From the 18th century until the 20th century, the Kingdom of Buganda had a dominant position in Central Africa. It is now a semi-independent province of Uganda.

Buganda is bordered on the south by Lake Victoria, to the east by the Victoria Nile and on the north by Lake Kyoga. Buganda is in the middle of Africa and is divides the equator. In Buganda, there is a spring of the Nile.

The ancient capital of Entebbe and Kampala are the new in Buganda. Buganda is known for the tombs of the Buganda Kings at Kasubi, and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Cushitic and Nilotic herdsmen, the Hima or Tutsi called them ended up probably around the 14th century from the north to the area and went with the long-established Bantu compounds, whereupon as a result the kingdom of the Kabaka ( king ) of Buganda was born.

Kabaka Dynasties

Since the founding of Buganda in 1300

  • Kato Kintu Kakulukuku, first Kabaka (king) of Buganda 1300
  • CCWA I. Walusimbi, 2 Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Kimera Walusimbi, 3 Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Ttembo Kiridde, 4 Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Kiggala Kasongovu, fifth Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Kiyimba Ntege, 6 Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Kayima Ssendikaddiwa, 7 Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Nakibinge Kagali, 8 Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Mulondo Ssekajja, 9 Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Jjemba Busungwe, 10th Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Ssuuna I. Kisolo, 11th Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Ssekamaanya Kisolo, 12th Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Kimbugwe Kamegere, 13th Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Kateregga Kamegere, 14th Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Mutebi I. Mutesi, 15th Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Jjuuko Mulwana, 16th Kabaka (king) of Buganda, about 1680
  • Kayemba Kisiki, 17th Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Tebandeke Mujambula, 18th Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Ndawula Nsobya, 19th Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Kagulu Ntambi, 20th Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Kikulwe Mawuuba 21 Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Mawanda Ssebanakitta 22 Kabaka (king) of Buganda
  • Mwanga I. Ssebanakitta 23 Kabaka (king) of Buganda from 1740 to 1741
  • Namugala Kagali, 24th Kabaka (king) of Buganda from 1741 to 1750
  • Kyabaggu Kabinuli 25 Kabaka (king) of Buganda from 1750 to 1780
  • Jjunju Ssendegeya 26 Kabaka (king) of Buganda from 1780 to 1797
  • Ssemakookiro Nabbunga Wasajja 27 Kabaka (king) of Buganda from 1797 to 1814
  • Kamaanya Kadduwamala Mukasa, 28, Kabaka (king) of Buganda from 1814 to 1832
  • Ssuuna II Migeekyamye Kalema, 30th Kabaka (king) of Buganda (ca. 1800-1857 ) 1832 - October 1857
  • Mutesa I ( Mtesa; Muteesa ) Mukaabya Muteesa I. Kayiira, Kabaka (king) of Buganda October 1857-19. October 1884 Mutesa I allows Christian missionaries in his kingdom to proselytize, 1875.
  • Eduard Schnitzer's expedition to Mutesa I., 1876
  • Members of the British Missionary Society arrive in 1877.
  • White Fathers of the French Roman Catholic Church come in 1879.

In 1894, Uganda British protectorate and thus the Kingdom of Buganda, yet it took the supremacy, in addition to the largely independent of the ruling chiefs of empires Banyoro, Ankole and Toro, a. On October 9, 1963, the then Kabaka of Buganda, Sir Edward Mutesa was the president of the independent federal Republic of Uganda. 1966, the king was expelled from the Prime Minister Milton Obote, who made ​​himself the head. Buganda lost its independence. There followed a period of oppression by Milton Obote and Idi Amin.

The royal family was forced to flee. The son of the late Kabaka Ronald Mutebi II Muwenda returned back to Uganda in 1986 and was crowned the 37th Kabaka (other sources 36th Kabaka ) of Buganda on 31 July 1993. On 19 December 1997, the former Royal Palace Lubiri in Mengo, today a suburb in the south west of Kampala, by the central government of Uganda has been returned to Buganda. He is now the buga Indian seat of the government and parliament of Buganda.

The return of the Lubiri was part of a ten -point plan to bring peace to the partially rocked by unrest Buganda region.

Kasubi Tombs Nilotic peoples Muteesa I of Buganda Emin Pasha Mwanga II of Buganda Daudi Cwa II of Buganda Bunyoro Mutesa II of Buganda Langi people
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