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Ganda

Member of the majority ethnic group in Uganda; the Baganda also live in Kenya. Traditionally farmers, the Ganda are a Bantu people, many of whom now work in cities. Most are Christians. Their language, Luganda, belongs to the Niger-Congo language family and has about 3 million speakers.

Until the 19th century, the Ganda formed an independent kingdom – the largest in E Africa – under their king, the kabaka, who ruled through a system of governors and district chiefs. It was a British protectorate 1894–1962, and the monarchy was officially overthrown 1966.



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Dinners and friendly associations among missionaries and protectorate officials, and between Baganda and Britons, had allowed the British to plot among themselves, seize Ugandans' resources, seduce Buganda's leaders and block Ganda efforts toward individual and corporate progress.
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The figure remained at the royal compound until Rukonge fled from German troops, which advanced after his attack on Baganda Catholic catechists.
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Ssengendo's own interest in the subject stems from living through two decades--from the late 1960s through the late 1980s--of social turmoil, marked by violent persecutions of the Baganda under the regimes of Apolo Milton Obote (independent Uganda's first prime minister), and that of Idi Amin Dada, both northerners.
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